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.
CVE-2012-4929
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS v2 base score.
This CVE was only ever scored under CVSS v2.0. NVD CVSS v2.0 base 2.6 — NVD rates that LOW (NVD's v2 bands: LOW 0.0–3.9 / MEDIUM 4.0–6.9 / HIGH 7.0–10.0; no CRITICAL band). Vector AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. CVSS v2 is an older, coarser metric than v3.1/v4.0 (no Scope, no User Interaction, no Attack Requirements), so it is not directly comparable to a v3 or v4 score. NVD has never re-scored this record under v3. EPSS predicts 4.3% exploitation probability in the next 30 days; it does not lift the v2 base. EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated) sets EG Risk's exploitation input, not EPSS. Confidence: LOW.
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v2.0 (legacy)
- 2.6LOWNVD never assigned a CVSS v3 rating to this CVE
- EG Score
- 2.6LOWlow confidence
- EG Risk
- 28EG Risk 28/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity26% × 45%The EG Score, 2.6 of 10.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 4.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 90th
- KEV
- Not listed
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
September 15, 2012
Last Modified
April 29, 2026
References (34)
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00096.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
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- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-uses-ssltls-information-leak-hijack-https-sessions-090512
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3253
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55704 (archived copy: the site no longer serves it)
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1627-1
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1628-1
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1898-1
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857051
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://gist.github.com/3696912
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://github.com/mpgn/CRIME-poc
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18920
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/demo-crime-tls-attack-091212
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libqt4-network (4:4.7.4-0ubuntu8.2) @ oneiric | 2026-05-29 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8.10) @ lucid | 2026-05-29 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libssl1.0.0 (1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.1) @ raring | 2026-05-29 | ubuntu |
| redhat | spice-client-msi-0:3.3-12 | 2014-04-17 | redhat |
| redhat | rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.4-20130306.2.el6_4 | 2013-03-13 | redhat |
| redhat | openssl-0:1.0.0-27.el6_4.2 | 2013-03-04 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(26 across 7 ecosystems)
Debian:11(5)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
| lighttpd | — |
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| nginx | — |
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| openssl | — |
| — |
| pound | — |
| — |
Debian:13(5)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| apache2 | — |
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| lighttpd | — |
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| nginx | — |
| — |
| openssl | — |
| — |
| pound | — |
| — |
Debian:14(5)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| apache2 | — |
| — |
| lighttpd | — |
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| nginx | — |
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| openssl | — |
| — |
| pound | — |
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Debian:6.0(5)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | 2.2.16-6 ... 2.2.16-6+squeeze8 (11 versions) |
| — |
| lighttpd | 1.4.28-2, 1.4.28-2+squeeze1, 1.4.28-2+squeeze1.1 |
| — |
| nginx | 0.7.67-3, 0.7.67-3+squeeze1, 0.7.67-3+squeeze2 |
| — |
| openssl | 0.9.8o-4 ... 0.9.8o-4squeeze9 (15 versions) |
| — |
| pound | 2.5-1, 2.5-1.1, 2.6-1 |
| — |
Debian:12(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
| lighttpd | — |
| — |
| nginx | — |
| — |
| openssl | — |
| — |
Debian:7(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pound | 2.6-2 |
| — |
Debian:8(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pound | 2.6-6 |
| — |
All Vendor Advisories
(6)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2013:0587MODERATE2012-09-13
RHSA-2013:0587 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2013:0636MODERATE2012-09-13
RHSA-2013:0636 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2014:0416MODERATE2012-09-13
RHSA-2014:0416 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-1627-1MEDIUM
Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-1628-1MEDIUM
Qt vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-1898-1MEDIUM
OpenSSL vulnerability
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 85 of 137 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 15 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 52 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
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Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 GitHub checker repository. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub checkeranthophilee/A2SV--SSL-VUL-ScanPublished Jan 1, 2021
A2SV = Auto Scanning to SSL Vulnerability HeartBleed, CCS Injection, SSLv3 POODLE, FREAK... etc Support Vulnerability [CVE-2007-1858] Anonymous Cipher [CVE-2012-4929] CRIME(SPDY) [CVE-2014-0160] CCS Injection [CVE-2014-0224] HeartBleed [CVE-2014-3566] SSLv3 POODLE [CVE-2015-0204] FREAK Attack [CVE-2015-4000] LOGJAM Attack [CVE-2016-0800] SSLv2 DROWN Installation : $ apt update && apt upgrade $ apt install git $ apt install python2 $ apt install python $ git clone https://github.com/hahwul/ a2sv $ cd a2sv $ chmod +x * $ pip2 install -r requirements.txt usage : $ python2 a2sv.py -h It shows all commands how we can use this tool $ python a2sv.py -t 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 = target means here own device
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCmpgn/CRIME-pocPublished Apr 21, 2018
:hocho: CRIME attack PoC : a compression oracle attacks CVE-2012-4929 :hocho:
Open source ↗
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