CVE-2013-3160
Description
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."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | office | 2003 | |
| microsoft | office | 2007 | |
| microsoft | word | 2003 | |
| microsoft | word | 2007 | |
| microsoft | word_viewer | | |
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-253A
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18819
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-253A
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18819
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.