CVE-2012-1545: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 20.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, allows remote attackers to bypass Protected Mode or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging access to a Low integrity process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2012.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 10 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only; version 6.00.2462.0000 only; version 6.00.2479.0006 only; version 6.0.2600 only; version 6.00.2600.0000 only; version 6.0.2800 only; …

Published 2012-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.