CVE-2012-1545: microsoft ie

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-1545 is a medium (CVSS 5.8) vulnerability in microsoft ie. EPSS estimates a 20.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-03-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 17-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, allows remote attackers to bypass Protected Mode or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging access to a Low integrity process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2012.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.