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critical 10.0

CVE-2013-5597 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocLoader::doStopDocumentLoad function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.1…

published 2013-10-30 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-5437

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.3%
EPSS 6.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocLoader::doStopDocumentLoad function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving a state-change event during an update of the offline cache.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4
  • firefox RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • firefox RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1480RHSA-2013:1476

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-5597 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (MFSA 2013-98)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 17.0.10-1.el5_10, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 17.0.10-1.el5_10, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1476
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1480
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1476

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Exploit prediction

6.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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