Why is Microsoft republishing a CVE from 2013? We are republishing CVE-2013-3900 in the Security Update Guide to update the Security Updates table and to inform customers that the EnableCertPaddingCheck is available in all currently supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. While the format is different from the original CVE published in 2013, except for clarifications about how to configure the EnableCertPaddingCheck registry value, the information herein remains unchanged from the original text published on December 10, 2013, Microsoft does not plan to enforce the stricter verification behavior as a default functionality on supported releases of Microsoft Windows. This behavior remains available as an opt-in feature via reg key setting, and is available on supported editions of Windows released since December 10, 2013. This includes all currently supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. The supporting code for this reg key was incorporated at the time of release for Windows 10 and Windows 11, so no security update is required; however, the reg key must be set. See the Security Updates table for the list of affected software. Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the WinVerifyTrust function handles Windows Authenticode signature verification for portable executable (PE) files. An anonymous attacker could exploit the vulnerability by modifying an existing signed executable file to leverage unverified portions of the file in such a way as to add malicious code to the file without invalidating the signature. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user or application run or install a specially crafted, signed PE file. An attacker could modify an... See more at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2013-3900
CVE-2013-3900
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under NVD CVSS v3. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2013-3832 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 80EG Risk 80/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity88% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 45%
- EPSS %ILE
- 98th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 45% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3900
Published
December 11, 2013
Last Modified
October 8, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2013-3900Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-3900Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-098 - Critical | Microsoft Learn
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-098Archived MSDN and TechNet Blogs | Microsoft Learn
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/12/10/ms13-098-update-to-enhance-the-security-of-authenticode.aspxVendor Advisories for CVE-2013-3900(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 213× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 2,012 refreshes on record for this CVE.
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- 2026-11-01 21:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 21:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 21:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-31 23:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 23:07 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 23:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-31 00:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 00:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 00:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-30 02:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 02:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-29 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-29 03:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 03:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-28 05:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 05:30 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-27 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-26 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-10-26 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-25 20:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-25 10:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 10:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-24 11:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 11:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-23 13:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 13:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 13:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-22 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-21 16:36 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-20 18:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 18:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
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- 2026-10-19 19:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 19:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 19:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-18 21:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 21:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 21:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-18 11:19 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
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- 2026-10-17 00:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 00:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
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- 2026-10-16 02:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-15 03:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 03:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 03:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-14 05:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
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- 2026-10-13 06:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-12 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 08:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 08:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-12 04:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 04:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-12 01:04 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 01:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 21:23 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 21:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 17:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 13:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-11 10:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 10:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 06:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-11 03:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 03:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-10 23:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 23:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 23:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8cj2-jg77-qj2p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.4
- 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs). No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.
- GitHub PoCnorvethil/CVE-2013-3900-PowerShell-PoCPublished Aug 18, 2025
CVE PoC
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCCyberCondor/Fix-WinVerifyTrustSignatureValidationVulnPublished Jul 3, 2023
Fix WinVerifyTrust Signature Validation Vulnerability, CVE-2013-3900, QID-378332
Open source ↗
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