CVE-2013-1688

The Profiler implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 parses untrusted data during UI rendering, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code via a crafted web site.

Published: 2013-06-25 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-1688 is rated High Risk (67.6/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.56%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.36% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-1688

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 1.20% 2.56% +1.36%
2 2025-07-09 0.97% 1.20% +0.23%
3 2025-03-30 0.97%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-1688

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-1688

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-1688

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1688
suse medium CVE-2013-1688 severity moderate: SUSE including 48 source package names (MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-140.2.0-160000.1.2, …), 129 product×package rows across 48 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7, … (48 product lines)): Known Not Affected 69, Fixed 60. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1688/
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-1688 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): released 4, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-1688

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-1688

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox <= 21.0 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 19.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 20.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 20.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-1688

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