CVE-2013-7332

The Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

13.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2014-02-26

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://soroush.secproject.com/blog/2013/04/microsoft-xmldom-in-ie-can-divulge-informatio…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2013-7331
• CVE-2013-7346
• CVE-2013-7319
• CVE-2013-7349
• CVE-2013-7316
• CVE-2013-7351