# CVE-2013-7332: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted XML documents exploiting recursion in the Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2014
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-573j-gc9j-4fph

## What is CVE-2013-7332?

CVE-2013-7332 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8, published on 26 Feb 2014. 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

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-7332?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-7332?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-7332 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-7332 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7332 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 8

- [CVE-2013-2558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2558/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2013-3898](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3898/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.9)
- [CVE-2014-0254](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-0254/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2013-1305](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1305/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2015-2362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-2362/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-7332 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-7332 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8, published on 26 Feb 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7332 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Windows 8. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-7332/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-7332/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7332
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7332
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-7332

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