PT-2014-3371 · Microsoft · Microsoft.Xmldom+1

Irsdl · Published 2014-02-26 · Updated 2019-05-14 · CVE-2013-7332

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions prior to 8.1

Description The issue is related to the Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control, which does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming memory and CPU via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-7332

Affected Products

Windows

Microsoft.Xmldom

References · 2

• 🔥 https://soroush.secproject.com/blog/2013/04/microsoft-xmldom-in-ie-can-divulge-information-of-local-drivenetwork-in-error-messages · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7332 · Security Note