CVE-2014-1489

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% 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-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 does not properly restrict access to about:home buttons by script on other pages, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session restore) via a crafted web site.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
Mozilla Firefox: through 26.0; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+208)
Opensuse: 13.1
Opensuse Project Opensuse: 12.3
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-sp3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
http://osvdb.org/102874
http://secunia.com/advisories/56888
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-10.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65329
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959531
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90888

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