CVE-2014-1520

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-04-30 10:49:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-22 02:59:00

Affected Software

Fedora 19

19

Fedora 20

20

Oracle Solaris 11.3

11.3

References

FEDORA-2014-5833

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2014-5829

Third Party Advisory

59866

Permissions Required

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Third Party Advisory

1030163

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676

Issue Tracking

GLSA-201504-01

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