CVE-2013-5612

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-5612
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermozilla
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-12-11 15:55:12 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionCross-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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS: 0.007390000 probability, percentile 0.729880000 (date 2026-04-29)

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 19 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11.3 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 6.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 6.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 6.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 6.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 sp3 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2052-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1918-1: moderate: update for MozillaFirefox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1917-1: moderate: update for MozillaFirefox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1916-1: moderate: update for MozillaFirefox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Mozilla Seamonkey Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-26.0-2.fc19 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
MFSA 2013-106: Character encoding cross-origin XSS attack af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey CVE-2013-5612 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
871161 – (CVE-2013-5612) Potential XSS with cross-domain (cross-origin) inheritance of charset af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2014:0008-1: moderate: update for seamonkey af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1919-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-26.0-3.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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