VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2764

high
Published 2012-06-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 on Windows might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Metro DLL in the current working directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37510 remote windows verified
Moshe Zioni · 2012-06-26

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.52 - 'metro_driver.dll' DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"20.0.1132.42"}
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.0
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.1
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.2
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.3
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.4
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.5
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.6
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.7
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.8
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.9
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.10
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.11
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.12
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.13
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.14
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.15
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.16
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.17
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.18
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.19
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.20
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.21
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.22
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.23
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.24
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.25
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.26
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.27
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.28
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.29
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.30
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.31
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.32
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.33
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.34
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.35
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.36
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.37
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.38
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.39
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.40
gcp googlechrome20.0.1132.41

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.