CVE-2012-1872

MEDIUM

Microsoft Internet Explorer - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted character sequences with EUC-JP encoding, aka "EUC-JP Character Encoding Vulnerability."

References (2)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15629

[Vendor Advisory] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-037

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0093

EPSS Percentile 75.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

microsoft/internet_explorer

Timeline

Published Jun 12, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026