CVE-2012-1876

N/A

Published: June 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM UTC

7 products affected across 1 vendorInternet ExplorerWindows Server 2008Windows 7

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 65%

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by attempting to access a nonexistent object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Col Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability," as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2012.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Internet Explorer · Microsoft

95%

6 7 8 9

microsoft-windows-2003-server (environment) · microsoft-windows-7 (environment) · microsoft-windows-server-2003 (environment) · microsoft-windows-server-2008 (environment) · microsoft-windows-vista (environment) · microsoft-windows-xp (environment)

Windows 2003 Server · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows 7 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Server 2003 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions

Windows Server 2008 · Microsoftdevice

80%

All versions