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.
EPSS: 0.070 (93.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, URL Repurposed, Broken Link)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.