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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.

Published

2014-04-30T10:49:04.753

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-269

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	< 29.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox_esr	< 24.5	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows	*	No
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	19	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	20	Yes

References

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