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.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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