CVE-2012-5142

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.97 does not properly handle history navigation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 23.0.1271.96; 23.0.1271.0, 23.0.1271.1, 23.0.1271.2, 23.0.1271.3, 23.0.1271.4, 23.0.1271.5 (+61)
Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160803
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16173
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160803
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16173

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