CVE-2013-1679 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox (before 21.0, ESR 17.x before 17.0.6) and Thunderbird (before 17.0.6, ESR 17.x before 17.0.6). This flaw, residing in the mozilla::plugins::child::_geturlnotify function, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service through heap memory corruption via unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe threat with network-based exploitation, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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.