Memory corruption in Microsoft Silverlight - CVE-2013-0074
Published: January 16, 2017 / Updated: November 20, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU4646
CSH Severity: Critical
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0074
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to boundary error when rendering an HTML object. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site containing a malicious Silverlight applicationt, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
The weakness exists due to boundary error when rendering an HTML object. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site containing a malicious Silverlight applicationt, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
Affected software
Microsoft Silverlight
How to mitigate CVE-2013-0074
Install update from vendor's website.
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #788 - Microsoft Silverlight - ScriptObject Unsafe Memory Access (MS13-022/MS13-087) (Metasploit) (March 18, 2020)
- Exploit #789 - Microsoft Internet Explorer - COALineDashStyleArray Unsafe Memory Access (MS12-022) (Metasploit) (March 18, 2020)
- Exploit #1666 - MS13-022 Microsoft Silverlight ScriptObject Unsafe Memory Access (March 18, 2020)