CVE-2012-1872

MEDIUM

Internet Explorer 6-9 - Cross-Site Scripting via EUC-JP Character Encoding

Title source: llm

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)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ms

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15629

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0635

EPSS Percentile 92.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (4)

microsoft/internet_explorer 6

microsoft/internet_explorer 7

microsoft/internet_explorer 8

microsoft/internet_explorer 9

Published Jun 12, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026