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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-1520 Detail

Description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-1520
NVD Published Date:
04/30/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Mozilla Corporation