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CVE-2012-1849

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1849 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting Microsoft Lync 2010, Lync 2010 Attendee, and Lync 2010 Attendant. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by placing a malicious DLL in the same directory as a .ocsmeet file, which the application then insecurely loads. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is critical, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score suggests a higher than average exploitability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync:2010:*:attendant_x64:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync:2010:*:attendant_x86:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync:2010:*:attendee:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync:2010:*:x64:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync:2010:*: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
18.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1843 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 8,915 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/ms12-039
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14874
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
US Government Resource