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CVE-2012-2857
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) DOM implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) DOM implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5642 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15336 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2013-03-14-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2013-01-28-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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