CVE-2014-8631 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

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 None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00217.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla Subscribe	Firefox Subscribe Seamonkey Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-8468	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8631
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8631

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:01.899Z

Reserved: 2014-11-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8631

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-12-11T11:59:12.960

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-8631

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-12-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8631 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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