Code Injection in Visio Viewer - CVE-2012-0138
Published: February 15, 2012 / Updated: November 20, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44295
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0138
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
Vendor: Microsoft
Affected software:
Visio Viewer
Visio Viewer
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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-2012-0020, CVE-2012-0136, and CVE-2012-0137.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-0138
Install update from vendor's website.