Bug 993603 (CVE-2013-1713)

Summary: CVE-2013-1713 Mozilla: Wrong principal used for validating URI for some Javascript components (MFSA 2013-72)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-06 09:22:33 UTC 
Security researcher Cody Crews reported that some Javascript components will perform checks against the wrong uniform resource identifier (URI) before performing security sensitive actions. This will return an incorrect location for the originator of the call. This could be used to bypass same-origin policy, allowing for cross-site scripting (XSS) or the installation of malicious add-ons from third-party pages.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-72.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Cody Crews as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 08:24:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1140 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1140.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 18:11:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1142 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1142.html