Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-3853 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft Office and Word

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
microsoft
CWE-119
critical
nessus

Summary

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3 and Word 2007 SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Office document, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-3854.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Microsoft
2

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

NASL familyWindows : Microsoft Bulletins
NASL idSMB_NT_MS13-072.NASL
descriptionThe remote Windows host is running a version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office Compatibility Pack, or Microsoft Word Viewer that is affected by the following remote code execution vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to the way the XML parser used by Word resolves external entities. (CVE-2013-3160) - Remote code execution vulnerabilities exist due to memory corruption issues in the way that Microsoft Office parses files. (CVE-2013-3847, CVE-2013-3848, CVE-2013-3849, CVE-2013-3850, CVE-2013-3851, CVE-2013-3852, CVE-2013-3853, CVE-2013-3854, CVE-2013-3855, CVE-2013-3856, CVE-2013-3857, CVE-2013-3858) If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into opening a specially crafted file, it may be possible to leverage these issues to read arbitrary files on the target system or execute arbitrary code, subject to the user
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id69832
published2013-09-11
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69832
titleMS13-072: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845537)

Oval

accepted2013-11-04T04:00:48.977-05:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameSecPod Team
    organizationSecPod Technologies
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
commentMicrosoft Word 2007 SP3 is installed
ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:15946
descriptionMicrosoft Office 2007 SP3 and Word 2007 SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Office document, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-3854.
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:18464
statusaccepted
submitted2013-09-13T17:32:25
titleWord Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2013-3853) - MS13-072
version14