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CVE-2013-5600

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsIOService::NewChannelFromURIWithProxyFlags function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a blob: URL.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 24.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0 (+16)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.22; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+97)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 24.0.1; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+4)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0.9, 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4 (+4)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00014.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1476.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1480.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2788
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2797
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-100.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916576
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19172
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html

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