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CVE-2013-1713

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1713 is a Same Origin Policy bypass vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox (before 23.0, ESR 17.x before 17.0.8), Thunderbird (before 17.0.8, ESR 17.x before 17.0.8), and SeaMonkey (before 2.20). The flaw stems from incorrect URI comparisons, allowing remote attackers to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or install arbitrary add-ons through a specially crafted website. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. It is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 22.0CPE 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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1713Moderate

Mozilla: Wrong principal used for validating URI for some Javascript components (MFSA 2013-72)

Aug 7, 2013

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18884
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2735
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2746
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-72.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/61876