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CVE-2014-1502

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% 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-346

Description

The (1) WebGL.compressedTexImage2D and (2) WebGL.compressedTexSubImage2D functions in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and render content in a different domain via unspecified vectors.

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/mfsa2014-22.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972622
• 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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