CVE-2014-1491 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2014-1491

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in...

Vulnerability Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, network security services, seamonkey, thunderbird, enterprise manager ops center, vm server, fedora, opensuse, linux enterprise desktop, linux enterprise server, linux enterprise software development kit, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 12.2.0, 12.2.1, 12.3.0, 3.2, 19, 20, 11.4, 12.3, 13.1, 11, 7.0, 8.0, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10

Timeline

Official Publish: February 6th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.