CVE-2013-2827

high

Published 2014-01-15 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

An unspecified ActiveX control in WellinTech KingSCADA before 3.1.2, KingAlarm&Event before 3.1, and KingGraphic before 3.1.2 allows remote attackers to download arbitrary DLL code onto a client machine and execute this code via the ProjectURL property value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-31575 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2014-02-11

KingScada - kxClientDownload.ocx ActiveX Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/wellintech_kingscada_kxclientdownload rank 400

KingScada kxClientDownload.ocx ActiveX Remote Code Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
wellintech	kingalarm\&event	`{"endIncluding":"2.0.2"}`
wellintech	kinggraphic	`{"endIncluding":"3.1"}`
wellintech	kingscada	`{"endIncluding":"3.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.