CVE-2014-1595

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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-199

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, and Thunderbird before 31.3 on Apple OS X 10.10 omit a CoreGraphics disable-logging action that is needed by jemalloc-based applications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading /tmp files, as demonstrated by credential information.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 33.0; 31.0, 31.1.0, 31.1.1
Mozilla Firefox ESR: 31.2
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 31.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/HT204244
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-90.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2ocxac/apple_coregraphics_framework_on_os_x_1010_is/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1092855
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/HT204244
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-90.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2ocxac/apple_coregraphics_framework_on_os_x_1010_is/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1092855

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