CVE-2012-4930
Chrome - Information Disclosure via SPDY TLS Compression Side-Channel
Title source: llmDescription
The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of 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.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://isecpartners.com/blog/2012/9/14/details-on-the-crime-attack.html
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3091
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/crime-attack-uses-compression-ratio-tls-requests-side-channel-hijack-secure-sessions-091312
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/crime_tls_attack/
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.ekoparty.org/2012/thai-duong.php
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857737
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
Scores
EPSS
0.0208
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Details
CWE
CWE-310
Status
published
Products (2)
google/chrome
mozilla/firefox
Published
Sep 15, 2012
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026