CVE-2013-1347

CVE-2013-1347 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 24, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Microsoft has 390 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 117 of them linked to ransomware.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly allocated or (2) is deleted, as exploited in the wild in May 2013.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/advisory/2847140
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25294
• http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-134A
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-038
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16727
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/advisory/2847140
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25294
• http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-134A