VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5612

medium
Published 2013-12-11 · 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
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.23 makes it easier for remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging a Same Origin Policy violation triggered by lack of a charset parameter in a Content-Type HTTP header.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected —
19 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.5 Affected —
6.0 Affected —
5.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
12.3 Affected —
12.2 Affected —
11 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.10 Affected —
13.04 Affected —
12.10 Affected —
12.04 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"26.0"}26.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.23"}2.23

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.