CVE-2012-4775 (GCVE-0-2012-4775)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-16 20:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, aka "CTreeNode Use After Free Vulnerability."
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-16 20:53 UTC
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/51202 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-318A.html | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT |
Date Public
2012-11-13 00:00
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"url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027749"
},
{
"name": "MS12-071",
"refsource": "MS",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-071"
},
{
"name": "51202",
"refsource": "SECUNIA",
"url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/51202"
},
{
"name": "TA12-318A",
"refsource": "CERT",
"url": "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-318A.html"
}
]
}
}
}
},
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"assignerOrgId": "f38d906d-7342-40ea-92c1-6c4a2c6478c8",
"assignerShortName": "microsoft",
"cveId": "CVE-2012-4775",
"datePublished": "2012-11-14T00:00:00.000Z",
"dateReserved": "2012-09-06T00:00:00.000Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-01-16T20:53:40.048Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
},
"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
"dataVersion": "5.1"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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