Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2013-1678

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1678 describes a critical vulnerability in the _cairo_xlib_surface_add_glyph function affecting Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, and Thunderbird ESR. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through an invalid write operation. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) over the network with low attack complexity. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 20.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0550 is in the 86th 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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-0:17.0.6-2.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.6-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.6-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.6-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.6-1.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.6-2.el6_4
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1678Critical

Mozilla: Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2013-48)

May 14, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00011.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00012.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00008.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0820.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0821.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16577
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2699
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-48.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/59864
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1822-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1823-1