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CVE-2014-1498

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-347

Description

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 28.0 — fixed in 28.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.25 — fixed in 2.25
• Opensuse: 13.1
• Opensuse Project Opensuse: 11.4, 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

How to fix

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

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-18.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935618
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html

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