CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1520
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 29.0)
• mozilla firefox (>= 24.0 < 24.5)
• fedoraproject fedora 19
• fedoraproject fedora 20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html Vendor 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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html Vendor 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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory