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CVE-2013-1710

66
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1710 describes a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. This flaw, residing in the crypto.generateCRMFRequest function, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks during Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) generation. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its historical relevance and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.0:alpha_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.0:alpha_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:2.0:alpha_3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
40.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Firefox 5.0 - 15.0.1 __exposedProps__ XCS Code Execution · Aug 6, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-30474 · Aug 6, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4012 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.8-5.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.8-5.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.8-3.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.8-3.el6_4
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1710Critical

Mozilla: CRMF requests allow for code execution and XSS attacks (MFSA 2013-69)

Aug 7, 2013

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18773
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2735
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2746
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-69.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/61900