CVE-2013-1724: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::HTMLFormElement::IsDefaultSubmitElement function in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving a destroyed SELECT element.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 23.0.1; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only; …
  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.20; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 17.0.9; version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.