CVE-2012-5142: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.97 does not properly handle history navigation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 23.0.1271.96; version 23.0.1271.0 only; version 23.0.1271.1 only; version 23.0.1271.2 only; version 23.0.1271.3 only; version 23.0.1271.4 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.1 only; version 12.2 only

Published 2012-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.