Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2013-6673
Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 do not recognize a user's removal of trust from an EV X.509 certificate, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers in opportunistic circumstances via a valid certificate that is unacceptable to the user.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
EPSS: 0.029 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 18, 19, 20
- Opensuse — versions 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
- Suse Linux_enterprise_desktop — versions 11
- Suse Linux_enterprise_server — versions 11
- Suse Suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit — versions 11.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-6673?
- CVE-2013-6673 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Cryptographic Issues. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2013-12-11.
- How severe is CVE-2013-6673?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.