CVE-2013-5057 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2013-5057?

CVE-2013-5057 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 Dec 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

hxds.dll in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3 and 2010 SP1 and SP2 does not implement the ASLR protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted COM component on a web site that is visited with Internet Explorer, as exploited in the wild in December 2013, aka "HXDS ASLR Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5057?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5057?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5057 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-5057 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5057 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-prwx-pv5g-49qx.