# CVE-2013-1690: Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not proper

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), NVD
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2022-03-28, remediation due 2022-04-18
- Published: 2013-06-26 · Updated: 2025-10-22

## Summary

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird email client software are affected. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted website to crash the application or possibly run arbitrary code on the user's computer.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not properly handle onreadystatechange events in conjunction with page reloading, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00010.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857883
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1891-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00004.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16996
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00003.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901365
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60778
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00006.html

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