CVE-2014-1511

critical

Published 2014-03-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to bypass the popup blocker via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34448 remote multiple verified

Metasploit · 2014-08-28

Mozilla Firefox - WebIDL Privileged JavaScript Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection rank 600

Firefox WebIDL Privileged Javascript Injection

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.5	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—
12.3	Affected	—
11.4	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":"28.0"}`	`28.0`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.25"}`	`2.25`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"24.4"}`	`24.4`
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-269

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

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