CVE-2013-5611

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 does not properly remove the Application Installation doorhanger, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof a Web App installation site by controlling the timing of page navigation.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
Mozilla Firefox: through 25.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+207)
Opensuse: 13.1
Opensuse Project Opensuse: 11.4, 12.3
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-105.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029470
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2052-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771294

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