Actively exploited · Published May 16, 2013 · Assigned by mozilla
CVE-2013-1675
Medium 6.5 Exploited
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Firefox from Mozilla. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 6.7% (higher than 94% of all known vulnerabilities). Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.
Official description
Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 do not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-665 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- DSA-2699 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
- MDVSA-2013:165 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0825 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866825 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- USN-1823-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- RHSA-2013:0821 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0929 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-47.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16976 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0831 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- RHSA-2013:0820 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0834 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0946 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- 59858 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- USN-1822-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1675 government-resource