CVE-2014-1585

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% 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 WebRTC video-sharing feature in dom/media/MediaManager.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 does not properly recognize Stop Sharing actions for videos in IFRAME elements, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from the local camera by maintaining a session after the user tries to discontinue streaming.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 32.0; 31.0, 31.1.0, 30.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: 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-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61387
http://secunia.com/advisories/62021
http://secunia.com/advisories/62022
http://secunia.com/advisories/62023

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