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CVE-2013-5598

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
30/10/2013
Last modified:
25/11/2025

Description

PDF.js in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1 does not properly handle the appending of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using this element within an embedded PDF object.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
8.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:24.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:24.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:24.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 24.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:21.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:22.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:23.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:23.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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