CVE-2013-1692

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not prevent the inclusion of body data in an XMLHttpRequest HEAD request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via a crafted web site.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 21.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 17.0 (+6)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.6; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-54.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60783

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