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CVE-2013-1723

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The NativeKey widget in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 processes key messages after destruction by a dispatched event listener, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging incorrect event usage after widget-memory reallocation.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 23.0.1; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0 (+2)
• 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 (+93)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.9; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+3)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00055.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00061.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-80.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62472
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891292
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19028
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html

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