CVE-2013-2551
Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- Published
- Mar 11, 2013
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Jun 13, 2013
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.5%
- Model date
- Oct 15, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers access to a deleted object, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013, aka "Internet Explorer Use After Free Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1308 and CVE-2013-1309.
Sources
modules/exploits/windows/browser/ms13_037_svg_dashstyle.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- platform: Windows($.exploit_windows/browser/ms13_037_svg_dashstyle.platform)
- verification: check_not_declared($.exploit_windows/browser/ms13_037_svg_dashstyle.check)
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