CVE-2013-6672 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2013-6672?

CVE-2013-6672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Dec 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 26.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.23 on Linux allow user-assisted remote attackers to read clipboard data by leveraging certain middle-click paste operations.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6672?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Solaris and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6672?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-6672 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6672 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g253-7hfj-2j46.