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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-1596 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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History

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:42:36.281Z

Reserved: 2014-01-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-1520

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-04-30T10:49:04.753

Modified: 2025-11-25T17:50:16.803

Link: CVE-2014-1520

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