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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2014-02-26

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Windows 8 (Microsoft)
• Windows 8.1 (Microsoft)

References

• https://soroush.secproject.com/blog/2013/04/microsoft-xmldom-in-ie-can-divulge-information-of-local-drivenetwork-in-err…