Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2014-1539

Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 and Thunderbird through 24.6 on OS X do not ensure visibility of the cursor after interaction with a Flash object and a DIV element, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via JavaScript code that produces a fake cursor image.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2014-1539 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from mozilla, from mozilla, from apple organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2014-06-11T10:57:17.893

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 29.0.1	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	≤ 24.6	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.0.1	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.1	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.1.1	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.2	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.3	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.4	Yes
Application	mozilla	thunderbird	24.5	Yes
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x	*	No

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00040.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00001.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59171 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59387 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59486 ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-50.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67967 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030388 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995603 ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00040.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00001.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59171 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59387 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59486 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-50.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67967 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030388 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995603 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For mozilla's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.