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CVE-2012-1661 (GCVE-0-2012-1661)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-12 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:46

Summary

ESRI ArcMap 9 and ArcGIS 10.0.2.3200 and earlier does not properly prompt users before executing embedded VBA macros, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary VBA code via a crafted map (.mxd) file.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19138	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113644/ESRI-…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~joecohen/exploits/CVE-2012-1661/	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027170	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/82986	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

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EUVD-2026-176721

European Vulnerability Database identifier assigned by ENISA

Reserved

2026-10-02 06:40

Assigner

ENISA

Alias of

a CVE record, shown under related vulnerabilities. This identifier carries no description, severity or references of its own: they belong to that CVE.

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FKIE_CVE-2012-1661

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-07-12 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:40

Severity

Summary

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113644/ESRI-ArcMap-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.cs.umb.edu/~joecohen/exploits/CVE-2012-1661/	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19138	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	http://www.osvdb.org/82986	Broken Link
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027170	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113644/ESRI-ArcMap-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.cs.umb.edu/~joecohen/exploits/CVE-2012-1661/	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19138	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.osvdb.org/82986	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027170	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	esri	arcmap	*

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GHSA-8JX3-M8C9-XWM8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:27 – Updated: 2024-10-10 15:30

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  "id": "GHSA-8jx3-m8c9-xwm8",
  "modified": "2024-10-10T15:30:30Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T05:27:50Z",
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}

GSD-2012-1661

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

Aliases

CVE-2012-1661

Aliases

CVE-2012-1661

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