VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5601

critical
Published 2013-10-30 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::SetEventHandler function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a memory allocation through the garbage collection (GC) API.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-100.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.22"}
mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozillaseamonkey2.10
mozillaseamonkey2.10.1
mozillaseamonkey2.11
mozillaseamonkey2.12
mozillaseamonkey2.12.1
mozillaseamonkey2.13
mozillaseamonkey2.13.1
mozillaseamonkey2.13.2
mozillaseamonkey2.14
mozillaseamonkey2.15
mozillaseamonkey2.15.1
mozillaseamonkey2.15.2
mozillaseamonkey2.16
mozillaseamonkey2.16.1
mozillaseamonkey2.16.2
mozillaseamonkey2.17
mozillaseamonkey2.17.1
mozillaseamonkey2.18
mozillaseamonkey2.19
mozillaseamonkey2.20
mozillaseamonkey2.21
mozillaseamonkey2.22
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"24.0"}
mozillafirefox19.0
mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozillafirefox20.0
mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozillafirefox21.0
mozillafirefox22.0
mozillafirefox23.0
mozillafirefox23.0.1
mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"24.0.1"}
mozillathunderbird17.0
mozillathunderbird17.0.1
mozillathunderbird17.0.2
mozillathunderbird17.0.3
mozillathunderbird17.0.4
mozillathunderbird17.0.5
mozillathunderbird17.0.6
mozillathunderbird17.0.7
mozillathunderbird17.0.8
mozillathunderbird24.0
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.9
mozillafirefox17.0
mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozillafirefox17.0.4
mozillafirefox17.0.5
mozillafirefox17.0.6
mozillafirefox17.0.7
mozillafirefox17.0.8
mozillafirefox17.0.9
mozillafirefox24.0
mozillafirefox24.0.1
mozillafirefox24.0.2
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.1
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.2
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.3
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.4
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.5
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.6
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.7
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.8

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.