CVE-2013-5598
HIGH · CVSS 8.3EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
PDF.js in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1 does not properly handle the appending of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using this element within an embedded PDF object.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-5438)
- Published
- October 30, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-5438 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 / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-99.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920515
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19133
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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