CVE-2014-1529

high
Published 2014-04-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The Web Notification API in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to bypass intended source-component restrictions and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a privileged context via a crafted web page for which Notification.permission is granted.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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

debian Debian Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
8.0 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected โ€”
19 Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.5 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected โ€”
12.3 Affected โ€”
11.4 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
10 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected โ€”
13.10 Affected โ€”
12.10 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"29.0"}29.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.26"}2.26
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"24.5"}24.5

References

CWEs

CWE-269

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

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