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CVE-2012-1545

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1545 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, allowing remote attackers to bypass Protected Mode or cause a denial of service. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited with medium attack complexity over the network to impact integrity and availability. While demonstrated during a Pwn2Own competition, 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
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:10:consumer_preview:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.00.2462.0000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.00.2462.0000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.00.2479.0006CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.00.2479.0006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.2600CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0.2600:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2009 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

arstechnica.com / business/news/2012/03/ie-9-on-latest-windows-gets-stomped-at-hacker-contest.ars
pwn2own.zerodayinitiative.com / status.html
twitter.com / vupen/statuses/177895844828291073
zdnet.com / blog/security/pwn2own-2012-ie-9-hacked-with-two-0day-vulnerabilities/10621