CVE-2013-1690: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not properly handle onreadystatechange events in conjunction with page reloading, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Mozilla: Firefox and Thunderbird
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html (opens in new tab)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html (opens in new tab)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html (opens in new tab)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (opens in new tab)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (opens in new tab)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996 (opens in new tab)
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716 (opens in new tab)
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720 (opens in new tab)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html (opens in new tab)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778 (opens in new tab)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1 (opens in new tab)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)