CVE-2013-1728

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 IonMonkey JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21, when Valgrind mode is used, does not properly initialize memory, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

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/mfsa2013-85.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62468
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1951-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1952-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883686

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