CVE-2013-3160

Office vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

24.2%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP3, Word 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP3, and Word Viewer allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, aka "XML External Entities Resolution Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2013-09-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 24.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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