The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6,…

Description

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in 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 does not prevent acquisition of chrome privileges during calls to content level constructors, which allows remote attackers to bypass certain read-only restrictions and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

12.0% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (17)

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17046 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• DSA-2699 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• MDVSA-2013:165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853709 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0825 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-42.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1823-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0821 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0929 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 93427 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 34363 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 59865 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0820 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0834 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0946 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-1822-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2013-1670](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2013-1670.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2013-1670)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:13 UTC.