CVE-2014-1560

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-1560
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermozilla
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-07-23 11:12:43 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use ASCII character encoding in a required context.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 24.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Access Denied af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
MFSA 2014-65: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA60628 - SUSE update for MozillaFirefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Deny Service and Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Deny Service, and Spoof User Interface Elements - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
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