CVE-2013-0799

Buffer overflow in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via crafted arguments.

Published: 2013-04-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-0799 is rated Low Risk (39.6/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.39%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-0799

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 0.19% 0.39% +0.20%
2 2025-07-06 0.04% 0.19% +0.15%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-0799

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
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.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-0799

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-0799

vendor priority summary link
gentoo high CVE-2013-0799: 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-2013-0799
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-0799 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (firefox, thunderbird), 12 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): not-affected 8, ignored 2, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0799

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-0799

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox <= 19.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 19.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 19.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 17.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 17.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 17.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 17.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 17.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:17.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird 17.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird 17.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird 17.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird 17.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird 17.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr 17.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr 17.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr 17.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr 17.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird_esr 17.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-0799

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