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CVE-2013-5604

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.5% 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-119

Description

The txXPathNodeUtils::getBaseURI function in the XSLT processor 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 does not properly initialize data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via crafted documents.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 24.0; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+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, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+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/mfsa2013-95.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=914017
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19091
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html

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