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CVE-2012-0020

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 20.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle memory during the parsing of files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted attributes in a Visio file, aka "VSD File Format Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0019, CVE-2012-0136, CVE-2012-0137, and CVE-2012-0138.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visio Viewer: 2010, 2010-sp1

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-045A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-015
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14965
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-045A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-015
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14965

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