CVE-2014-1559 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox before version 31.0 and Thunderbird before version 31.0. It allows remote attackers to trigger a certificate parsing outage by presenting a malformed X.509 certificate that fails to use UTF-8 encoding in a required field. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 30.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 24.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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