CVE-2014-1566

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 31.1 on Android does not properly restrict copying of local files onto the SD card during processing of file: URLs, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from the Firefox profile directory via a crafted application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1515.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.0; 30.0

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-71.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69522
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030792
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050690
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-71.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69522
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030792
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050690
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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