CVE-2013-5045
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 allows local users to bypass the Protected Mode protection mechanism, and consequently gain…
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 17.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 allows local users to bypass the Protected Mode protection mechanism, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging the ability to execute sandboxed code, aka "Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS13-097 Registry Symlink IE Sandbox Escape (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/local/ms13_097_ie_registry_symlinkRank greatdisclosed 10 Dec 2013
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Registry Symlink - IE Sandbox Escape (MS13-097) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33893local, windowspublished 27 Jun 2014Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 33893 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.4% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 100757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 33893 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- MS13-097 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127245/MS13-097-Registry-Symlink-IE-Sandbox-Escape.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4887 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-5045)Record last updated .