CVE-2013-1690

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 69%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
81
EG Risk 81/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
69%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

June 26, 2013

Last Modified

April 22, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated May 2, 2026
Patch available.
generic

[SECURITY] [DSA 2720-1] icedove security update

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720
generic

[SECURITY] [DSA 2716-1] iceweasel security update

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuthunderbird (17.0.7+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1) @ quantal2026-10-06ubuntu
ubuntufirefox (22.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) @ precise2026-10-06ubuntu
redhatthunderbird-0:17.0.7-1.el6_42013-06-25redhat
redhatxulrunner-0:17.0.7-1.el6_42013-06-25redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:7(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
icedove10.0.12-1 ... 17.0.5-2 (8 versions)
  • every version up to 17.0.7-1~deb7u1: fixed in 17.0.7-1~deb7u1
—
iceweasel10.0.12esr-1 ... 17.0.6esr-1~deb7u1 (38 versions)
  • every version up to 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1: fixed in 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(4)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 95× in last 7d / 432× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,844 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-06 09:06 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-06 09:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-06 05:24 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-06 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-06 01:39 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-06 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-05 21:56 UTCVendor advisory
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  9. 2026-10-05 18:14 UTCVendor advisory
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  11. 2026-10-05 14:30 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-05 14:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-05 10:47 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-05 10:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-05 07:02 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-05 07:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-05 03:19 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-05 03:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-04 23:35 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-04 23:35 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-04 23:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-04 23:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-10-04 19:53 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 19:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-10-04 16:09 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-04 16:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-04 12:25 UTCVendor advisory
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  4. 2026-10-04 08:42 UTCVendor advisory
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  13. 2026-10-03 17:49 UTCVendor advisory
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  25. 2026-10-02 19:27 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-02 19:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-10-02 15:44 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-02 15:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-10-02 12:01 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-02 12:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-10-02 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
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  33. 2026-10-02 04:32 UTCVendor advisory
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  35. 2026-10-02 00:47 UTCVendor advisory
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  37. 2026-10-01 21:01 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-01 21:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-10-01 17:18 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-01 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-10-01 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-01 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-10-01 09:51 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-01 09:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-10-01 06:08 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-01 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-10-01 02:24 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-01 02:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-30 18:58 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-30 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-30 15:15 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-30 15:15 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-30 15:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-09-30 14:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-09-30 11:32 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-30 11:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-09-30 07:49 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-30 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-30 04:06 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-30 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-30 00:19 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-30 00:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-29 20:35 UTCVendor advisory
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  75. 2026-09-29 01:54 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (1 GitHub PoC) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-27429✓ verified
    First seen Aug 8, 2013

    Mozilla Firefox - onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use-After-Free (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange✓ verified
    First seen Jun 25, 2013

    Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Free

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCvlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit
    First seen Aug 19, 2014

    Annotated FBI exploit for the Tor Browser Bundle from mid-2013 (CVE-2013-1690)

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2013-1690?
CVE-2013-1690 is a critical vulnerability published on June 26, 2013. 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…
When was CVE-2013-1690 disclosed?
CVE-2013-1690 was first published on June 26, 2013, with the most recent update on April 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2013-1690 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2013-1690 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 28, 2022, affecting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2013-1690?
CVE-2013-1690 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2013-1690?
CVE-2013-1690 affects Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2013-1690?
A fix for CVE-2013-1690 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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