8.8 - CVE-2013-2551

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2013-2551	First vendor Publication	2013-03-11
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-02-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score	8.8
Base Score	8.8	Environmental Score	8.8
impact SubScore	5.9	Temporal Score	8.8
Exploitabality Sub Score	2.8

Attack Vector	Network	Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None	User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High	Availability Impact	High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	9.3	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	8.6	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers access to a deleted object, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, aka "Internet Explorer Use After Free Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1308 and CVE-2013-1309.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2551

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-416	Use After Free

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16317

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16317
Title:	Internet Explorer Use After Free Vulnerability - (CVE-2013-2551) MS13-037
Description:	Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers access to a deleted object, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, aka "Internet Explorer Use After Free Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1308 and CVE-2013-1309.
Family:	windows	Class:	vulnerability
Reference(s):	CVE-2013-2551	Version:	5
Platform(s):	Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP	Product(s):	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10
Definition Synopsis:
IE 6 + Win XP/2K3 + vulnerable file versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is installed AND Check for vulnerable OS and respective file versions XP X86 and vulnerable file version Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit) is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 6.0.2900.6380 OR XP X64 / 2K3 and vulnerable file version XP X64 / 2K3 Microsoft Windows XP x64 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) Gold is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 6.0.3790.5149 OR IE 7 + Win XP/2K3/Vista/2K8 + vulnerable file versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed AND Check for vulnerable OS and respective file versions XP/2K3 and vulnerable file versions XP / 2K3 Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP x64 is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (ia64) Gold is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6000.21335 OR Vista/2K8 and vulnerable file versions Vista / 2K8 Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (ia-64) is installed AND Check for vulnerable versions Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6002.18823 OR Check for LDR range Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 7.0.6002.22000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 7.0.6002.23095 OR IE 8 + Win XP/2K3/Vista/2K8/Win7/R2 + vulnerable file versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is installed AND Check for vulnerable OS and respective file versions XP/2K3 and vulnerable file versions XP / 2K3 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows XP x64 is installed AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.23486 OR Vista/2K8 and vulnerable file versions Vista / 2K8 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition is installed AND Check for vulnerable versions Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.19418 OR Check for LDR Check for mshtml.dll version greater than or equal to 8.0.6001.23000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.6001.23486 OR Win 7 / R2 and vulnerable file versions Win 7 / R2 Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium-Based Edition is installed AND Check for vulnerable version Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7601.18126 OR Check for LDR range Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 8.0.7601.21000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 8.0.7601.22296 OR IE 9 + Win 7/R2/Vista/2K8 + vulnerable file versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is installed AND Vista/2K8/Win7/R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition is installed AND Check for vulnerable versions Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 9.0.8112.16483 OR Check for LDR range Mshtml.dll version is greater than or equal to 9.0.8112.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 9.0.8112.20593 OR IE 10 + Win 7/R2/Win8/2k12 + vulnerable file versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 is installed AND Check for vulnerable OS and respective file versions Win 7 / R2 and vulnerable file versions Win 7 / R2 Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) is installed AND Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition is installed AND Check for vulnerable version Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.16576 OR Check for LDR Check if the version of mshtml.dll is greater than or equal to 10.0.9200.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.20681 OR Win 8 x86 and vulnerable file versions Microsoft Windows 8 (x86) is installed AND Check for vulnerable versions Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.16578 OR Check for LDR range Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.20682 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is greater than or equal to 10.0.9200.20000 OR Win 8 x64 /2k12 and vulnerable file versions Win 8 x64 / 2k12 Microsoft Windows 8 (x64) is installed AND Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is installed AND Check for vulnerable versions Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.16579 OR Check for LDR range Check if the version of mshtml.dll is greater than or equal to 10.0.9200.20000 AND Check if the version of mshtml.dll is less than 10.0.9200.20682

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Internet Explorer cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:::::::*	5

SAINT Exploits

Description	Link
Internet Explorer VML Dashstyle Attributes Integer Overflow	More info here

ExploitDB Exploits

id	Description
2013-06-13	MS13-009 Microsoft Internet Explorer COALineDashStyleArray Integer Overflow
2013-06-07	Microsoft Internet Explorer textNode Use-After-Free

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date	Description
2015-04-30	Nuclear exploit kit obfuscated file download RuleID : 33983 - Revision : 5 - Type : EXPLOIT-KIT
2015-04-30	Nuclear exploit kit landing page detected RuleID : 33982 - Revision : 3 - Type : EXPLOIT-KIT
2014-11-16	Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS .ipsum layout use-after-free attempt RuleID : 31585 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-11-16	Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS .ipsum layout use-after-free attempt RuleID : 31584 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-03-15	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 29803 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-03-15	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 29802 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-03-06	Microsoft Internet Explorer VML array with negative length memory corruption ... RuleID : 29602 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Nuclear exploit kit Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability request RuleID : 28424 - Revision : 2 - Type : EXPLOIT-KIT
2014-01-10	Himan exploit kit landing page RuleID : 28307 - Revision : 2 - Type : EXPLOIT-KIT
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 27062 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 27061 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer CDispNode float css element use after free attempt RuleID : 26754 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer CDispNode float css element use after free attempt RuleID : 26753 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer runtimeStyle memory corruption attempt RuleID : 26642 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer runtimeStyle memory corruption attempt RuleID : 26641 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer VML array with negative length memory corruption ... RuleID : 26638 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer DCOMTextNode object use after free attempt RuleID : 26637 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer DCOMTextNode object use after free attempt RuleID : 26636 - Revision : 6 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 26635 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 deleted object access via timer memory corrupti... RuleID : 26634 - Revision : 5 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer html reload loop attempt RuleID : 26633 - Revision : 7 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer CDispNode float css element use after free attempt RuleID : 26631 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer CDispNode float css element use after free attempt RuleID : 26630 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer setInterval focus use after free attempt RuleID : 26629 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7-9 VBScript JSON reference information disclosur... RuleID : 26625 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-10	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7-9 VBScript JSON reference information disclosur... RuleID : 26624 - Revision : 4 - Type : BROWSER-IE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date	Description
2013-05-15	Name : The remote host is affected by multiple code execution vulnerabilities. File : smb_nt_ms13-037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157
http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/309452625173176320
http://twitter.com/VUPEN/statuses/309479075385327617
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-134A
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13...
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...

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Date	Informations
2025-02-07 21:21:36	Multiple Updates
2024-12-20 09:20:54	Multiple Updates
2024-11-28 12:35:06	Multiple Updates
2024-08-02 12:23:57	Multiple Updates
2024-08-02 01:07:07	Multiple Updates
2024-07-10 00:27:52	Multiple Updates
2021-05-04 12:25:14	Multiple Updates
2021-04-22 01:30:09	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 13:17:02	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:37:07	Multiple Updates
2018-10-13 05:18:39	Multiple Updates
2017-09-19 09:26:00	Multiple Updates
2016-10-19 21:22:32	Multiple Updates
2015-04-30 21:26:04	Multiple Updates
2014-03-06 21:20:50	Multiple Updates
2014-02-17 11:19:47	Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:29:20	Multiple Updates
2013-12-31 13:19:29	Multiple Updates
2013-11-04 21:27:11	Multiple Updates
2013-10-08 00:19:53	Multiple Updates
2013-07-05 10:07:25	Multiple Updates
2013-06-04 17:27:04	Multiple Updates
2013-05-16 17:03:20	Multiple Updates
2013-05-10 22:30:27	Multiple Updates
2013-03-16 18:31:08	First insertion

Global Informations

Type	Count
CWE ID(s)	1
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	5
Sources(s)	6
Saint Exploit(s)	1
ExploitDB Exploit(s)	2
Snort® Rule(s)	26
Nessus® Exploit(s)	1

	Related
10	TA13-134A
9.3	MS13-037
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8.8 - CVE-2013-2551

Executive Summary

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Detail

Original Source

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

OVAL Definitions

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

SAINT Exploits

ExploitDB Exploits

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