CVE-2012-4782 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10, as well as several Windows operating systems. A remote attacker can exploit this by enticing a user to a crafted website, leading to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but granting full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its high severity and potential for remote code execution, there is no public exploit intelligence, nor is it listed on the CISA KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.