CVE-2013-1738

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% 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-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JS_GetGlobalForScopeChain function in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect garbage collection in situations involving default compartments and frame-chain restoration.

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/mfsa2013-92.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62466
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1951-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1952-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=882897

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