Use After Free in Microsoft Windows 7

CVE-2013-5056

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Scripting Runtime Object Library in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site that is visited with Internet Explorer, aka "Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Microsoft Scripting Runtime Object Library."

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.204 (97.4th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2013-5056: held from 0.204 to 0.204.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.204 · newest: 0.204 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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