CVE-2014-1520 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox before version 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows. An attacker could exploit this by placing a malicious DLL in a temporary directory during the update process, allowing them to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact potential, requiring local access and moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 29.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 24.0, < 24.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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