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CVE-2013-1727

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1727 describes a Same Origin Policy bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 24.0 on Android. This flaw allows attackers to use a symlink with a file: URL to a local file, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or the theft of sensitive information like passwords and cookies. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, resulting in partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for this specific issue (EDB-38766) is publicly available, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 23.0.1CPE 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

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38766 · Sep 17, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0519 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-84.html
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