CVE-2013-1704

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsINode::GetParentNode function in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving a DOM modification at the time of a SetBody mutation event.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.20; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+140)

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-64.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883313
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18945
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-64.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883313
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18945

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