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Actively exploited · Published Feb 26, 2014 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2013-7331

Medium 6.5 Exploited

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on May 25, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 50.2% (higher than 99% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)50.2%top 1.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since May 25, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 15, 2022.

Official description

The Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local pathnames, UNC share pathnames, intranet hostnames, and intranet IP addresses by examining error codes, as demonstrated by a res:// URL, and exploited in the wild in February 2014.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-209 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

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