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Medium
CVE-2014-1520
maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before...
Vulnerability Description
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.
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=961676
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 24.0, 19, 20
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 30th, 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.