Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2013-7331

90
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7331 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX control, affecting various versions of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. This flaw allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local and network pathnames by analyzing error codes, posing a medium severity risk with a CVSS score of 6.5. The vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, leading to potential information leakage. Notably, this CVE has been actively exploited in the wild, with a Metasploit module available, and has garnered significant community and media attention, including reports of its use in watering hole attacks.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
58.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · May 25, 2022
Metasploit: MS14-052 Microsoft Internet Explorer XMLDOM Filename Disclosure · Sep 9, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5802 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-052
PatchVendor Advisory
soroush.secproject.com / blog/2013/04/microsoft-xmldom-in-ie-can-divulge-information-of-local-drivenetwork-in-error-messages
Exploit
fireeye.com / blog/uncategorized/2014/02/operation-snowman-deputydog-actor-compromises-us-veterans-of-foreign-wars-website.html
Third Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/539289
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securitytracker.com / id/1030818
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry