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CVE-2013-3893
CWE-416
Critical
97.7
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetMouseCapture implementation in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript strings, as demonstrated by use of an ms-help: URL that triggers loading of hxds.dll.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 87.52%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Aug 2025
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Published
- 18 Sept 2013
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 8 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time