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CVE-2013-0795

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% 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-264

Description

The System Only Wrapper (SOW) implementation in 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 does not prevent use of the cloneNode method for cloning a protected node, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy or possibly execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site.

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/mfsa2013-36.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1791-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825697
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16842

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