CVE-2014-1520
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.9
Description
maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.
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
Fedora Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Affected | — |
| 19 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endExcluding":"29.0"} | 29.0 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
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.