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…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 69.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 28 Mar 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 28 Mar 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Free (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechangeRank normaldisclosed 25 Jun 2013
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Mozilla Firefox - onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27429remote, windowspublished 8 Aug 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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 (10 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.
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-1717 (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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