CVE-2014-2018

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 17.x through 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x through 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message containing a data: URL in a (1) OBJECT or (2) EMBED element, a related issue to CVE-2013-6674.

Affected products

Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.19; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+126)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+3)
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+4)

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/863369
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-14.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029773
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029774
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=953
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=875818
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/863369
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-14.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029773
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029774

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