CVE-2013-1690
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…
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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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability.
- Added
- 28 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 18 Apr 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 69.0% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- USN-1890-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0982 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1152 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1891-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1141 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-2716 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-2720 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60778 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1690 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (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)
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