CVE-2014-1520

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Publication date:

30/04/2014

Last modified:

25/11/2025

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

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		29.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::	24.0 (including)	24.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:::::::*

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CVE-2014-1520

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools