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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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 records are not available for this CVE.