CVE-2013-0757 describes a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to 18.0, 17.0.2, and 2.15 respectively. This flaw in the Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by manipulating Object.prototype.__proto__ in a specially crafted HTML document. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating high severity with network-based attacks, medium complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code, including a Metasploit module, is publicly available, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 18.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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