CVE-2014-1520

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/59866

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-04-30

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00038