CVE-2013-5598

Mozilla Firefox <25.0 & ESR 24.x <24.1 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920515
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19133

Scores

EPSS 0.0294
EPSS Percentile 85.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (13)
mozilla/firefox 24.0
mozilla/firefox 24.0.1
mozilla/firefox 24.0.2
mozilla/firefox 19.0
mozilla/firefox 19.0.1
mozilla/firefox 19.0.2
mozilla/firefox 20.0
mozilla/firefox 20.0.1
mozilla/firefox 21.0
mozilla/firefox 22.0
... and 3 more
Published Oct 30, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026