CVE-2012-4929
The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-4854)
- Published
- September 15, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4854 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- google / chrome
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
- http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00096.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html
- http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
- http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
- http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3253
- http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
- http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55704
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1627-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1628-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1898-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857051
- https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
- https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
- https://gist.github.com/3696912
- https://github.com/mpgn/CRIME-poc
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18920
- https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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