CVE-2013-6040

high

Published 2014-01-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

8.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.1

Description

MW6 Aztec, DataMatrix, and MaxiCode ActiveX controls before version 4.0 vulnerable to arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document. Latest versions (4.0) of MW6 Aztec, DataMatrix, and MaxiCode ActiveX controls have resolved the issue

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-31177 dos windows

Pedro Ribeiro · 2014-01-24

MW6 Technologies Datamatrix - ActiveX 'Data' Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-31178 dos windows

Pedro Ribeiro · 2014-01-24

MW6 Technologies MaxiCode - ActiveX 'Data' Buffer Overflow (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-31176 dos windows

Pedro Ribeiro · 2014-01-24

MW6 Technologies Aztec - ActiveX 'Data' Buffer Overflow (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mw6tech	aztec_activex_control	`-`
mw6tech	datamatrix_activex_control	`-`
mw6tech	maxicode_activex_control	`-`

References

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

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