Vulnerability record

CVE-2013-1675

Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: ElevatedExploitation: Exploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Firefox, fix it now.

CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

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 do not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
FirefoxMozilla< 21.0; >= 17.0, < 17.0.6; < 17.0.621.0; 17.0.6KEV

Sources: KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2013-1675 scored CVSS 6.5: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Firefox systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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References