Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1487
The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive authentication information via vectors involving error messages.
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:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (83.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · 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
Weakness classification (CWE)
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)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/65330 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90889 (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)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-1487?
- CVE-2014-1487 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Origin Validation Error. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2014-02-06.
- How severe is CVE-2014-1487?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.