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CVSSv2

CVE-2014-1520

Published: 30/04/2014 Updated: 17/03/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox prior to 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x prior to 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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Vendor Advisories

Mozilla: Privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service Installer
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-35 Privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service Installer Announced April 29, 2014 Reporter Ash Impact High Products Firefox, Firefox ESR Fixed in ...

Exploits

Exploit DB: Mozilla Firefox DLL Hijacking
The fix applied for CVE-2014-1520 does not fix a DLL hijacking issue with Mozilla Firefox's executable installer ...

Mailing Lists

Full Disclosure: Unholy CRAP: Moziila's executable installers
<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> Full Disclosure mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> Unholy CRAP: Moziila's executable installers <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> From: "Stefan Kant ...

References

CWE-269http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.htmlhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/59866http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.htmlhttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137482/Mozilla-Firefox-DLL-Hijacking.htmlhttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-35/
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