VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1545

medium
Published 2012-03-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftie10
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2462.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2479.0006
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2600
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2600.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2800
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2800.1106
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2800.1106
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2900
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2900.2180
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2900.2180
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3663.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3718.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.1830
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.3959
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0.5730
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0.5730.11
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.5730.1100
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.6000.16386
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.6000.16441
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8.0.6001
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.