CVE-2014-1520

Public Exploit

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.

Category

6.9
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.04%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory mozilla.org Vendor Advisory mozilla.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 patch exploit vendor advisory issue tracking
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 third party advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 third party advisory mailing list
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-1520?
CVE-2014-1520 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-1520?
To fix CVE-2014-1520, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-1520 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-1520 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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