Privilege escalation in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1510
The Web IDL implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using an IDL fragment to trigger a window.open call.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.823 (99.7th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.823 · newest: 0.823 · 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, 8.0
- 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
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 6.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0310.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2911 (vendor-advisory, Third Party 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 (Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2151-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/66206 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2881 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-1510?
- CVE-2014-1510 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2014-03-19.
- How severe is CVE-2014-1510?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2014-1510 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.