CVE-2014-1520 (GCVE-0-2014-1520)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-30 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 09:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
References
security@mozilla.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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