Actively exploited · Published Oct 9, 2013 · Assigned by microsoft

CVE-2013-3897

High 8.8 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity use-after-free in Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 77.3% (higher than 99.6% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)77.3%top 0.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022

Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CDisplayPointer class in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted JavaScript code that uses the onpropertychange event handler, as exploited in the wild in September and October 2013, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/10/08/ms13-080-addresses-two-vulnerabilities-under-limited-targeted-attacks.aspx x_refsource_CONFIRM
TA13-288A third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT
MS13-080 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MS
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18989 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-3897 government-resource