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high 7.1

CVE-2013-6801 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 and SP3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed .d…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-6603

cvss
7.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.4%
EPSS 14.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 and SP3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed .doc file containing an embedded image, as demonstrated by word2003forkbomb.doc, related to a "fork bomb" issue.

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Exploit prediction

14.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0038.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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