CVE-2012-1873: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 18.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 9 does not properly create and initialize string data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML document, aka "Null Byte Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 8 only; version 9 only

Published 2012-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.