CVE-2014-1520

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-1520
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermozilla
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-30 10:49:04 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
Descriptionmaintenservice_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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-269 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: Unholy CRAP: Moziila's executable installers af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-29.0-5.fc19 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Deny Service, and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks and Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Mozilla Arbitrary Code Execution / Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Access Denied af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
MFSA 2014-35: Privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service Installer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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