CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1690
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Denial-of-Service Vulnerability — Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
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.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-03-28
- Remediation due
- 2022-04-18
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1690
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2013-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 22.0)
• mozilla firefox (>= 17.0 < 17.0.7)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 17.0.7)
• mozilla thunderbird esr (>= 17.0 < 17.0.7)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• redhat gluster storage server for on-premise 2.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux eus 5.9
• redhat enterprise linux eus 6.4
• redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 5.9
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.4
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
• suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 10
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996 Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996 Broken Link
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-1690 US Government Resource