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CVE-2012-1888

40
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1888 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Visio 2010 SP1 and Visio Viewer 2010 SP1. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a user's system by tricking them into opening a specially crafted Visio file. With a CVSS score of 9.3 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, this vulnerability is highly severe, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with medium attack complexity. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visio:2010:sp1:x64:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visio:2010:sp1:x86:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visio_viewer:2010:sp1:x64:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visio_viewer:2010:sp1:x86:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2415 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-059
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15811
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA12-227A.html
US Government Resource