CVE-2013-0796

Exp

The WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.17 on Linux does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (free of unallocated memory) via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2013-04-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-0796 is rated High Exploit Risk (92.8/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.80%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.93% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-0796

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-0796

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.88% 7.80% +4.93%
2 2026-01-20 4.53% 2.88% -1.66%
3 2025-10-05 4.53%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-0796

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-0796

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-0796

vendor priority summary link
gentoo high CVE-2013-0796: 1 GLSA(s) (201309-23), 6 atom(s) (mail-client/thunderbird, mail-client/thunderbird-bin, www-client/firefox, www-client/firefox-bin, www-client/seamonkey, www-client/seamonkey-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2013-0796
redhat critical https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0796
suse critical CVE-2013-0796 severity critical: SUSE including 78 source package names (MozillaFirefox-140.2.0-160000.1.2, MozillaFirefox-17.0.6esr-0.4.1, …), 136 product×package rows across 34 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (34 product lines)): Fixed 136. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0796/
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-0796 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, xulrunner-1.9.2, xulrunner-2.0), 40 status rows across 8 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, upstream): DNE 16, released 14, ignored 7, needs-triage 2, pending 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0796

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-0796

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 20.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox >= 17.0, < 17.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird >= 17.0, < 17.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr >= 17.0, < 17.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla seamonkey < 2.17 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-0796

URL Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00009.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00010.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00013.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00019.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00012.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0696.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0697.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-35.html Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1791-1 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827106 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838413 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
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