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CVE-2012-2524

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 20.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-15 · updated 2026-10-09
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 and SP3 and 2010 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) file, aka "CGM File Format Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2007-sp2, 2007-sp3, 2010-sp1

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-227A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-057
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15702
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-227A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-057
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15702

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