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CVE-2012-4969
CWE-416
Critical
93.4
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CMshtmlEd::Exec function in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, as exploited in the wild in September 2012.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.1
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 80.25%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jun 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Published
- 18 Sept 2012
- Last modified 21 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time