CVE-2014-1501

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 on Android allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access arbitrary file: URLs via vectors involving the "Open Link in New Tab" menu selection.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 27.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+210)
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/2014-03/msg00016.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-21.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960135
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-21.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960135

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