CVE-2013-5597 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. This flaw, residing in the nsDocLoader::doStopDocumentLoad function, can be triggered remotely during a state-change event related to offline cache updates. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it presents a low-complexity attack vector (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N) that could lead to arbitrary code execution or a denial of service through heap memory corruption. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.