CVE-2014-1520

N/A Unknown
Published: April 30, 2014 Modified: November 25, 2025
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
Source: security@mozilla.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
Source: security@mozilla.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
Source: security@mozilla.org
Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Source: security@mozilla.org
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

20 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.0%
11th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

Affected Vendors

mozilla fedoraproject microsoft

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