CVE-2014-1520

Mozilla Firefox DLL Hijacking

Severity Score

6.9

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

maintenservice_installer.exe en Maintenance Service Installer en Mozilla Firefox anterior a 29.0 y Firefox ESR 24.x anterior a 24.5 en Windows permite a usuarios locales ganar privilegios mediante la colocación de un archivo DLL de caballo de troya dentro de un directorio temporal en un momento no especificado en el proceso de actualización.

The fix applied for CVE-2014-1520 does not fix a DLL hijacking issue with Mozilla Firefox's executable installer.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 6.9

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2014-01-16 CVE Reserved
2014-04-30 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html	Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866	Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html	2021-03-17
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html	2021-03-17
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html	2021-03-17
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01	2021-03-17

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"	Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"	< 29.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 29.0"	-	Affected	in	Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"	Windows Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows"	*	-	Safe
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"	Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"	>= 24.0 < 24.5 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version " >= 24.0 < 24.5"	-	Affected	in	Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"	Windows Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows"	*	-	Safe
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				19 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "19"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				20 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "20"		-		Affected