CVE-2013-1690 vulnerability in Mozilla and Other Products
Published on June 26, 2013
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 18, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2013-1690 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
CVE-2013-1690 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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