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CVE-2012-0018
Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Gold and SP1 does not properly validate attributes in Visio files, which allows remote attackers to execute…
High9.3EPSS 25.1%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Gold and SP1 does not properly validate attributes in Visio files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, aka "VSD File Format Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 25.1% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- MS12-031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- visio-memory-code-exec(75115) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15606 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 49113 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 53328 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1027042 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 81731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- TA12-129A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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