CVE-2014-1520 (GCVE-0-2014-1520)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-30 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:42
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozil… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2014-04-29 00:00
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