PT-2014-3371
CVE-2013-7332
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Published
2014-02-26
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Updated
2019-05-14
Description by
CVSS 2.0
5.0
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Microsoft Windows versions prior to 8.1
Description
The issue is related to the Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control, which does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming memory and CPU via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 8.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
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