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CVE-2013-5615

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 does not properly enforce certain typeset restrictions on the generation of GetElementIC typed array stubs, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19, 20
• Mozilla Firefox: before 26.0; from 24.0 before 24.2 — fixed in 24.2, 26.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.23 — fixed in 2.23
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 24.2 — fixed in 24.2
• Opensuse: 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11-sp3
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 24.2, 26.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.23; Mozilla Thunderbird 24.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124108.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/125470.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/2013-12/msg00119.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00120.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00121.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html

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