How severe is CVE-2013-3897?

CVE-2013-3897 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 77.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2013-3897: Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3897

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CDisplayPointer class in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted JavaScript code that uses the onpropertychange event handler, as exploited in the wild in September and October 2013, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2013-3897 to the KEV catalog 3,067 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 391 Microsoft entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 166 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (77.3%) is higher than that of 62% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

4 Links

Vendor advisories

MS13-080

Third-party advisories

TA13-288A

Vulnerability databases

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18989

Other references

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/10/08/ms13-080-addresses-two-vulnerabilities-under-limited-targeted-attacks.aspx

Record Details

Published

2013-10-09

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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