CVE-2013-1690
HIGHCISA KEVEPSS 99th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird do not properly handle onreadystatechange events in conjunction with page reloading, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possibly execute malicious code via a crafted web site.
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Remediation due: 2022-04-18
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1690
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