RCE in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2012-1524

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing a deleted object, aka "Attribute Remove Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.215 (97.6th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-1524: rose from 0.209 to 0.215.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.209 · newest: 0.215 · change: +0.006

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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