Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2870

Title: Xmlsoft Libxslt Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2870.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Aug 31, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.46%

Vulnerability Summary

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 during XPath navigation, related to (1) the xsltCompileLocationPathPattern function in libxslt/pattern.c and (2) the xsltGenerateIdFunction function in libxslt/functions.c.

Impacted Vendors

techland 1

xmlsoft 1

google 1

Reference Links

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50838 http://secunia.com/advisories/54886 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?r1=75684&r2=149998 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?view=log http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?r1=118654&r2=150123 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?view=log http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:164 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50838 http://secunia.com/advisories/54886 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?r1=75684&r2=149998 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?view=log http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?r1=118654&r2=150123 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?view=log http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:164 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2870 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 31, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.