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CVE-2014-1483

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1021

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information by using an IFRAME element in conjunction with certain timing measurements involving the document.caretPositionFromPoint and document.elementFromPoint functions.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
• Mozilla Firefox: before 27.0 — fixed in 27.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.24 — fixed in 2.24
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.3, 13.1
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 27.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
• http://osvdb.org/102869
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56706
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56767
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56787
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56888
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-05.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65316
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717

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