CVE-2013-5612
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
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.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedora | 19 | affected | |
| fedora | 20 | affected | |
| suse | 12.2 | affected | |
| suse | 12.3 | affected | |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 13.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 13.10 | affected | |
| rhel | 5.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.5 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-106.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64205
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029470
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029476
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2052-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871161
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-106.html
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.