Mozilla: Use after free mutating DOM during SetBody (MFSA 2013-64)
Published Aug 7, 2013
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.50%
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsINode::GetParentNode function in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving a DOM modification at the time of a SetBody mutation event.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
Configuration 2
- ≤ 2.20
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.3
- 2.0.4
- 2.0.5
- 2.0.6
- 2.0.7
- 2.0.8
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- 2.0.13
- 2.0.14
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
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- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.2
- 2.2
- 2.2
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- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3
- 2.3.1
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- 2.3.3
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4
- 2.4.1
- 2.5
- 2.5
- 2.5
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- 2.6
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- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6
- 2.6.1
- 2.7
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- 2.7.1
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- 2.8
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- 2.9.1
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- 2.13
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- 2.13.1
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- 2.14
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- 2.20
- 2.20
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
firefox
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
thunderbird
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
firefox
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
thunderbird
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | firefox | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | thunderbird | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | firefox | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | thunderbird | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 4.50% (0.04502) | 91.21th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.50% (0.04502) | 90.25th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 4.07% (0.04071) | 87.47th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 12.41% (0.12411) | 89.81th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 4.18% (0.04184) | 87.95th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 2.12% (0.02120) | 88.88th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 3.56% (0.03565) | 90.16th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.15% (0.04146) | 86.08th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.15% (0.04146) | 84.67th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.15% (0.04146) | 68.31th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (7)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-64.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1704 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883313 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994334 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1704
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18945 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1704
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-64.html | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1704 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883313 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994334 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1704 | ||
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18945 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1704 |
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