VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1710

critical
Published 2013-08-07 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest function in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) request generation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30474 local multiple verified
Metasploit · 2013-08-06

Mozilla Firefox 5.0 < 15.0.1 - __exposedProps__ XCS Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest rank 600
Firefox 5.0 - 15.0.1 __exposedProps__ XCS Code Execution
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
exploit_multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection rank 600
Firefox toString console.time Privileged Javascript Injection
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.20"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.9.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.10.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.12.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.17
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.17.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.18
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.19
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.20
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.6
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"22.0"}
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox21.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"17.0.7"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.7

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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