Actively exploited · Published Jun 26, 2013 · Assigned by mozilla
CVE-2013-1690
High 8.8 Exploited
In plain English
A high-severity memory corruption in Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 28, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 69.0% (higher than 99.4% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 18, 2022.
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- USN-1890-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- RHSA-2013:0982 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- SUSE-SU-2013:1153 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- SUSE-SU-2013:1152 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- RHSA-2013:0981 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- USN-1891-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1141 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- DSA-2716 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16996 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1142 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1140 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- DSA-2720 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- 60778 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1143 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1690 government-resource