How severe is CVE-2013-0074?

CVE-2013-0074 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 78.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2013-0074: Microsoft Silverlight Double Dereference

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Silverlight Double Dereference Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-05-25

Remediation due

2022-06-15

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0074

Description

Microsoft Silverlight 5, and 5 Developer Runtime, before 5.1.20125.0 does not properly validate pointers during HTML object rendering, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Silverlight application, aka "Silverlight Double Dereference Vulnerability."

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

4 Links

Vendor advisories

MS13-022

Third-party advisories

TA13-071A

Vulnerability databases

Record Details

Published

2013-03-13

Last updated

2026-08-14

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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