CVE-2014-1589 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Published: 2014-12-11

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-1665	Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.
Ubuntu USN	USN-2424-1	Firefox vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00305.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-84.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043787
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1589
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1589

History

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Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2014-12-11T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:42:36.632Z

Reserved: 2014-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-1589

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-12-11T11:59:02.993

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-1589

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-12-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-1589 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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