CVE-2014-1590

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send method in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted JavaScript object.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.2; through 33.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.30
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 31.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3090
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3092
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-85.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71397
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087633
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3090

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