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CVE-2011-1962

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle unspecified character sequences, which allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site that triggers "inactive filtering," aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7, 8, 9

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-057
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12657
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-057
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12657

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