Information disclosure in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2012-1858
The toStaticHTML API (aka the SafeHTML component) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Communicator 2007 R2, and Lync 2010 and 2010 Attendee does not properly handle event attributes and script, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted HTML document, aka "HTML Sanitization Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.220 (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 over last 30 days · oldest: 0.220 · newest: 0.220 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 8, 9
- Microsoft Lync — versions 2010
- Microsoft Office Communicator — versions 2007
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 — versions r2
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-050 (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-037 (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15530 (signature, vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-039 (vendor-advisory)