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CVE-2013-0793

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.17 do not ensure the correctness of the address bar during history navigation, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or phishing attacks by leveraging control over navigation timing.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 19.0.2; 19.0, 19.0.1, 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3 (+1)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.17; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+128)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00019.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00012.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0696.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0697.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-38.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58837
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1791-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803870

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