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CVE-2013-5045

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-5045 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 10 and 11, allowing local users to bypass the Protected Mode sandbox. With a CVSS score of 6.2, it presents a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring high attack complexity and local access. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit modules like MS13-097 Registry Symlink IE Sandbox Escape are publicly available in Metasploit and ExploitDB. Despite the availability of exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: MS13-097 Registry Symlink IE Sandbox Escape · Dec 10, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-33893 · Jun 27, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1739 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/127245/MS13-097-Registry-Symlink-IE-Sandbox-Escape.html
ExploitVDB Entry
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-097
exploit-db.com / exploits/33893
osvdb.org / 100757