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Status published
Medium
CVE-2013-5612
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 and...
Vulnerability Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.23 makes it easier for remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging a Same Origin Policy violation triggered by lack of a charset parameter in a Content-Type HTTP header.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64205
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029470
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029476
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-106.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871161
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2052-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 19, 20, 11.3, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 5.0, 6.0, 6.5, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 11
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 11th, 2013
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.