CVE-2012-1856 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the TabStrip ActiveX control within MSCOMCTL.OCX, impacting numerous Microsoft products including various versions of Office, SQL Server, Commerce Server, and Visual Basic Runtime. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious documents or web pages that trigger system-state corruption. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it has a low attack complexity and does not require authentication, making it easily exploitable with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention with numerous discussions and media coverage, despite no public Metasploit or ExploitDB modules.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2002CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:commerce_server:2002:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:commerce_server:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2009CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:commerce_server:2009:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2009CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:commerce_server:2009:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2004CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:host_integration_server:2004:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.