CVE-2013-1690
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird: Denial-of-Service
As of , CVE-2013-1690 in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 28 March 2022
- US federal deadline
- 18 April 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.69Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.83 on 28 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
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.
CISA's 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.
The CVE record's description, from mozilla
- CVE published
- 26 June 2013
- Assigned by
- mozilla
- CVSS
- 8.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-119
- Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 27429).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Freeexploit module, rank normal
- Exploit-DB: Mozilla Firefox - onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use-After-Free (Metasploit)EDB-ID 27429, verified by Exploit-DB, 8 August 2013
Firefox and Thunderbird: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-11708Sandbox Escape | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird | Patch this weekEPSS 0.56 | 0.56 | ||
| CVE-2019-11707Type Confusion | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird | Patch soonVerified Exploit-DB entry | 0.38 | ||
| CVE-2019-17026Type Confusion | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird | Patch soon | 0.46 | ||
| CVE-2020-6820Use-After-Free | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird | Patch soon | 0.07 | ||
| CVE-2020-6819Use-After-Free | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird | Patch soon | 0.03 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org