CVE-2013-5025

medium

Published 2013-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

An ActiveX control in exlauncher.dll in the Help subsystem in National Instruments LabWindows/CVI before 2013 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering the display of local example files.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ni	labwindows	`{"endIncluding":"2012"}`
ni	labwindows	`-`
ni	labwindows	`8.5`
ni	labwindows	`9.0`
ni	labwindows	`2009`
ni	labwindows	`2010`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.