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CVE-2012-4792
CWE-416
Critical
97.6
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers access to an object that (1) was not properly allocated or (2) is deleted, as demonstrated by a CDwnBindInfo object, and exploited in the wild in December 2012.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 78.82%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jul 2024
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Published
- 30 Dec 2012
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time