CVE-2012-1872

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Published 2012-06-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted character sequences with EUC-JP encoding, aka "EUC-JP Character Encoding Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windowsnot-affected
windows windows-not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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