Path Traversal in Mozilla Firefoxos

CVE-2014-1507

Directory traversal vulnerability in the DeviceStorage API in Mozilla FirefoxOS before 1.2.2 allows attackers to bypass the media sandbox protection mechanism, and read or modify arbitrary files, via a crafted application that uses a relative pathname for a DeviceStorageFile object.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2014-03-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mozilla Firefoxos
Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-25.html (Vendor Advisory)