CVE-2012-4792

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.

Scoring

Severity

HIGH

CVSS base score

8.8

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS probability

91.83%

CISA KEV

Known exploited vulnerability

Published

2012-12-30

Last modified

2026-09-16

Affected products

• n/a n/a

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