CVE-2013-1705

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% 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-119

Description

Heap-based buffer underflow in the cryptojs_interpret_key_gen_type 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 (application crash) via a crafted Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) request.

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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00060.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-65.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=882865
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18935
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00060.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-65.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=882865
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18935

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