CVE-2013-1690

mozilla firefox, mozilla thunderbird, mozilla thunderbird esr

Published 26 Jun 2013 · updated 16 Jun 2026 · Analyzed

8.8 High · CVSS 3.1, NVD

Exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 28 Mar 2022, with a remediation deadline of 18 Apr 2022 for US federal agencies.

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html · Third Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716 · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720 · Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html · Vendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778 · Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1 · Third Party Advisory
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883 · Issue Tracking
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365 · Issue Tracking
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996 · Broken Link
www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1690 · US Government Resource