Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1488
The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving termination of a worker process that has performed a cross-thread object-passing operation in conjunction with use of asm.js.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.072 (94.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.072 · newest: 0.072 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
- openSUSE — versions 12.3, 13.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit — versions 11
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/65321 (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)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-11.html (Vendor Advisory)
- 8pecxstudios.com/ (URL Repurposed, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/56787 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-1488?
- CVE-2014-1488 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Published 2014-02-06.
- Is CVE-2014-1488 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.