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CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVE-2012-5376
Google Chrome IPC Written File Arbitrary Permissions Bypass
Description

The Inter-process Communication (IPC) implementation in Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.94 allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions and write to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a renderer process, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5112.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 11, 2012, 10:51 a.m.

Last Modified :

April 11, 2025, 12:51 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-5376 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Google chrome
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL [email protected]
Solution
This information is provided by the 3rd party feeds.
  • All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/chromium-22.0.1229.94'
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2012-5376.

URL Resource
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html Vendor Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154983 Vendor Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154987 Vendor Advisory
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/10/stable-channel-update_6105.html Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/86156 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/50954 Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156 Tool Signature
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html Vendor Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154983 Vendor Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154987 Vendor Advisory
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/10/stable-channel-update_6105.html Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/86156 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/50954 Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156 Tool Signature
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-5376 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-5376 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2012-5376 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2012-5376 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html
    Added Reference http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154983
    Added Reference http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154987
    Added Reference http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/10/stable-channel-update_6105.html
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/86156
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/50954
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186
    Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 27, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Removed CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html No Types Assigned http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154983 No Types Assigned http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154983 Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154987 No Types Assigned http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=154987 Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://osvdb.org/86156 No Types Assigned http://osvdb.org/86156 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type http://secunia.com/advisories/50954 No Types Assigned http://secunia.com/advisories/50954 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186 No Types Assigned https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156 No Types Assigned https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156 Tool Signature
    Removed CWE CWE-264
    Added CWE CWE-269
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.49:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.54:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.55:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.56:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.57:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.60:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.62:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.63:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.67:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.76:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.78:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.79:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.89:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 22.0.1229.92 OR *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 22.0.1229.94
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 19, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15156 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15156 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 29, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79186 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79186 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 11, 2012

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 9.6
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 9.3
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.37 }} -0.22%

score

0.55833

percentile