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CVE-2013-1725

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% 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

Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 do not ensure that initialization occurs for JavaScript objects with compartments, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect scope handling.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 23.0.1; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0 (+11)
• 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)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 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-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.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/msg00060.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00061.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1268.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1269.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2762

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