Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8
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.
EPSS: 0.133 (96.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_8
- Microsoft Windows_8.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)