CVE-2013-5609 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engines of Mozilla Firefox (before 26.0), Firefox ESR (before 24.2), Thunderbird (before 24.2), and SeaMonkey (before 2.23), impacting various distributions including Canonical, Fedora, and Red Hat. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through memory corruption and application crashes, and potentially execute arbitrary code without user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating notable attention despite a lack of media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 26.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 24.0, < 24.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 24.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.