CVE-2013-3918
8.8, high Known exploitedMicrosoft Windows Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 74% higher than 99.4% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 12 Nov 201312 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 6 Oct 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 27 Oct 2025, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
The InformationCardSigninHelper Class ActiveX control in icardie.dll in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted web page that is accessed by Internet Explorer, as exploited in the wild in November 2013, aka "InformationCardSigninHelper Vulnerability."
Details
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows 7
- Weakness
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 16 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- secure@microsoft.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 9
Patches and fixes 1
Advisories 6
- blogs.technet.com /b/msrc/archive/2013/11/11/activex-control-issue-being-addressed-in-update-tuesday.aspx (opens in a new tab)
- fireeye.com /blog/technical/2013/11/new-ie-zero-day-found-in-watering-hole-attack.html (opens in a new tab)
- us-cert.gov /ncas/alerts/TA13-317A (opens in a new tab)
- isc.sans.edu /forums/diary/16985 (opens in a new tab)
- oval.cisecurity.org /repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19089 (opens in a new tab)
- microsoft.com /en-us/msrc/blog/2013/11/technical-details-of-the-targeted-attack-using-ie-vulnerability-cve-2013-3918/ (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Microsoft CVEs
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- CVE-2026-65660 Microsoft SharePoint Code Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-68820 Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.3% 7, high
- CVE-2026-50522 Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2026-56155 Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services Insufficient Granularity of Access Control Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.3% 7.8, high
- CVE-2026-56164 Microsoft SharePoint Server Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 9.8, critical
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.