CVE-2013-5612
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.23 makes it easier for remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging a Same Origin Policy violation triggered by lack of a charset parameter in a Content-Type HTTP header.
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
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-5452)
- Published
- December 11, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-5452 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- oracle / solaris
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server aus
- redhat / enterprise linux server eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server tus
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise software development kit
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-106.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64205(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029470(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029476(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2052-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871161(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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