Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote…

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by attempting to access a nonexistent object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Col Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability," as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2012.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

65.0% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-94 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• TA12-164A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• http://pwn2own.zerodayinitiative.com/status.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/ie-9-on-latest-windows-gets-stomped-at-hacker-contest.ars (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• MS12-037 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwn2own-2012-ie-9-hacked-with-two-0day-vulnerabilities/10621 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://twitter.com/vupen/statuses/177895844828291073 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15539 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 19:08 UTC.