SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-2870

libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly manage memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XSLT expression that is not properly identified…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 2.46%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.46%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly manage memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XSLT expression that is not properly identified during XPath navigation, related to (1) the xsltCompileLocationPathPattern function in libxslt/pattern.c and (2) the xsltGenerateIdFunction function in libxslt/functions.c.

CVSS 2.0
4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
2.46% probability · 83th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
apple/iphone os · google/chrome · xmlsoft/libxslt
Source
chrome-cve-admin@google.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.