CVE-2014-1488

critical

Published 2014-02-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving termination of a worker process that has performed a cross-thread object-passing operation in conjunction with use of asm.js.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—
12.3	Affected	—
11	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.10	Affected	—
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endExcluding":"27.0"}`	`27.0`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.24"}`	`2.24`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.