CVE-2013-1670
The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 does not prevent acquisition of chrome privileges during calls to content level constructors, which allows remote attackers to bypass certain read-only restrictions and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 12.0% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-1697)
- Published
- May 16, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-1697 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00008.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0820.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0821.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34363
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:165
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-42.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/93427
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59865
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1822-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1823-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853709
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17046
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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