Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Google Chrome - CVE-2012-5117
Published: November 7, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43361
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5117
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.64 does not properly restrict the loading of an SVG subresource in the context of an IMG element, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
Affected software
Google Chrome
How to mitigate CVE-2012-5117
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/11/stable-channel-release-and-beta-channel.html
- http://osvdb.org/87076
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56413
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=145915
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15912