CVE-2014-1583

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2 does not properly restrict toJSON calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted API calls that access sensitive information within the JSON data of an alarm.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 32.0; 30.0, 31.0, 31.1.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/141796.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141085.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00002.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61854
http://secunia.com/advisories/62022
http://secunia.com/advisories/62023
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3050
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-82.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70424

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