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Status published
Medium
CVE-2014-1496
Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 might allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the extracted Mar contents during an update.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925747
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-16.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, suse linux enterprise software development kit, suse linux enterprise desktop, suse linux enterprise server
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 24.0, 11.0, 11
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 19th, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.