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CVE-2013-1730

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1730 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. This flaw stems from improper handling of XBL-backed node movement between documents, enabling remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service via a specially crafted website. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring medium attack complexity and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. 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
<= 17.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0225 is in the 69th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.9-1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.9-1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.9-1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.9-1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.9-1.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.9-1.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-2013-1730Important

Mozilla: Compartment mismatch re-attaching XBL-backed nodes (MFSA 2013-88)

Sep 17, 2013

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
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00055.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00057.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00059.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00061.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1268.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1269.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19022
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2762
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-88.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/62473
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1951-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1952-1