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Actively exploited · Published Mar 13, 2013 · Assigned by microsoft

CVE-2013-0074

High 7.8 Exploited Ransomware

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Silverlight from Microsoft. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on May 25, 2022). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 78.9% (higher than 99.6% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)78.9%top 0.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since May 25, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 15, 2022.

Official description

Microsoft Silverlight 5, and 5 Developer Runtime, before 5.1.20125.0 does not properly validate pointers during HTML object rendering, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Silverlight application, aka "Silverlight Double Dereference Vulnerability."

Affected products (as reported)

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