CVE-2012-1879

high
Published 2012-06-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
8.1

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by attempting to access an undefined memory location, aka "insertAdjacentText Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windowsnot-affected
windows windows-not-affected
windows windowsr2not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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