CVE-2012-2868: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving improper interaction between worker processes and an XMLHttpRequest (aka XHR) object.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 21.0.1180.88; version 21.0.1180.0 only; version 21.0.1180.1 only; version 21.0.1180.2 only; version 21.0.1180.31 only; version 21.0.1180.32 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.1 only; version 12.2 only

Published 2012-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.