CVE-2025-12445 Security feature bypass in Chrome

What is CVE-2025-12445?

CVE-2025-12445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 10 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Policy bypass in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 142.0.7444.59 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to leak cross-origin data via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Weakness: CWE-288

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12445?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2025-12445?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2025-12445 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12445 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-12445, GHSA-3x5x-62pf-8jpr.