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CVE-2014-8631

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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-284

Description

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 supports native-interface passing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions via a call to an unspecified method.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 33.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.30

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-91.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821573
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-91.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821573
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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