VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-0787

critical
Published 2013-03-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEditor::IsPreformatted function in editor/libeditor/base/nsEditor.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 19.0.2, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.4, Thunderbird before 17.0.4, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.16.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an execCommand call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"19.0.1"}
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"17.0.3"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.16"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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