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FKIE_CVE-2014-1520

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-04-30 10:49 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:05

Severity

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
security@mozilla.org	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html	Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html	Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.org	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/59866	Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html	Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html	Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.org	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/59866	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
mozilla	firefox	*
mozilla	firefox	*
microsoft	windows	*
fedoraproject	fedora	19
fedoraproject	fedora	20

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CVE-2014-1520 (GCVE-0-2014-1520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-30 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:42

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mozilla mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfs…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozil…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2014-04-29 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.

Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.