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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2013-2557

The sandbox protection mechanism in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, as demonstrated against Adobe Flash Player by VUPEN…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 10.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The sandbox protection mechanism in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, as demonstrated against Adobe Flash Player by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013.

CVSS 2.0
7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
10.95% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
microsoft/internet explorer
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%8%15%4 November 2026: 10.95%4 November 20264 November 2026

EPSS 10.9% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.