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Tracker / CVE-2013-7332

CVE-2013-7332

Medium 5.0

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.

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_8
microsoft windows_8.1

Analysis

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