CVE-2014-1520

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.

Published: Apr 30, 2014
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2014-1520
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

CWE-269

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
mozilla / firefox	-	29.0
mozilla / firefox_esr	24.0	24.5
fedoraproject / fedora	20	20.x
fedoraproject / fedora	19	19.x

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

Vulnerability Database

289,784

CVE-2014-1520