CVE-2012-5148

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The hyphenation functionality in Google Chrome before 24.0.1312.52 does not properly validate file names, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 24.0.1312.51; 24.0.1272.0, 24.0.1272.1, 24.0.1273.0, 24.0.1274.0, 24.0.1275.0, 24.0.1276.0 (+114)
Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/01/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00005.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167122
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15746
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/01/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00005.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167122
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15746

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