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
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- 89.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 15, 2012
Last Modified
April 29, 2026
References (68)
- cve@mitrehttp://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
- cve@mitrehttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
- cve@mitrehttp://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
- cve@mitrehttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN65273415/index.html
- cve@mitrehttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000129.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00096.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
- cve@mitrehttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
- cve@mitrehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829
- cve@mitrehttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html
- cve@mitrehttp://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor
- cve@mitrehttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / 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.
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
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Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCanthophilee/A2SV--SSL-VUL-ScanFirst seen 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-pocFirst seen Apr 21, 2018
:hocho: CRIME attack PoC : a compression oracle attacks CVE-2012-4929 :hocho:
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