VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5598

high
Published 2013-10-30 · 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
8.3

Description

PDF.js in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1 does not properly handle the appending of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using this element within an embedded PDF object.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox24.0
mozilla mozillafirefox24.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox24.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"24.0"}
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox21.0
mozilla mozillafirefox22.0
mozilla mozillafirefox23.0
mozilla mozillafirefox23.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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