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CVE-2013-1714

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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-264

Description

The Web Workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 does not properly restrict XMLHttpRequest calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+8)
• 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)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.7; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+2)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-73.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61882
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879787
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18002
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-73.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61882
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879787
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18002

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