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CVE-2013-1697

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1697 describes a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, including ESR versions, where the XrayWrapper implementation fails to properly restrict DefaultValue usage for method calls. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via a crafted website that triggers a user-defined toString or valueOf method. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability has a high severity, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 21.0CPE 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

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0317 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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-0:17.0.7-1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.7-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.7-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.7-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.7-1.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.7-1.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-2013-1697Moderate

Mozilla: XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context (MFSA 2013-59)

Jun 25, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17243
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2716
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2720
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-59.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/60784
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1890-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1891-1