CVE-2014-1520
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.41% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.