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CVE-2014-1560

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1560 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before version 31.0 and Thunderbird before version 31.0. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a certificate parsing outage by presenting a specially crafted X.509 certificate that lacks ASCII character encoding in a required field. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-1560Moderate

Mozilla: Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding (MFSA 2014-65)

Jul 22, 2014

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/60628
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201504-01
mozilla.org / security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-65.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1030619
securitytracker.com / id/1030620