Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1479
The System Only Wrapper (SOW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.24 does not prevent certain cloning operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on XUL content via vectors involving XBL content scopes.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.046 (91.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.046 · newest: 0.046 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19, 20
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.3, 13.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2119-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- download.novell.com/Download (Broken Link)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029721 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- 8pecxstudios.com/ (URL Repurposed, Broken Link)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0132.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/56922 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/56787 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-1479?
- CVE-2014-1479 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2014-02-06.
- How severe is CVE-2014-1479?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.