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CVE-2014-1496

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 might allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the extracted Mar contents during an update.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 28.0; from 24.0 before 24.4 — fixed in 24.4, 28.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.25 — fixed in 2.25
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 24.4 — fixed in 24.4
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11-sp3
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 24.4, 28.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.25; Mozilla Thunderbird 24.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-16.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925747
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-16.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925747
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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