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CVE-2013-5598

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

PDF.js in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1 does not properly handle the appending of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using this element within an embedded PDF object.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 24.0; 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2 (+6)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-99.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920515
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19133
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-99.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920515
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19133
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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