Privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2014-1520
maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/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: 0.004 (32.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 32.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Mozilla Firefox
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19, 20
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/59866 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege… (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)