CVE-2013-5602: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Worker::SetEventListener function in the Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to direct proxies.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; version 17.0.5 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.22; 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 24.0.1; version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 17.0.9 only; 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 2013-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.