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.
- Published Dec 30, 2012
- CVSS 8.8 high
- 78.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- In CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- A Metasploit module exploits it
- A fix is available
Affected software
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