Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1498
The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (78.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- openSUSE Project — versions 11.4, 12.3
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- openSUSE — versions 13.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit — versions 11
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html (Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)