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CVE-2014-1590

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1590 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox (before 34.0, ESR 31.x before 31.3), Thunderbird (before 31.3), and SeaMonkey (before 2.31). A remote attacker can exploit a flaw in the XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send method by providing a specially crafted JavaScript object, leading to an application crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 31.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 33.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 31.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 52nd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:31.3.0-3.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:31.3.0-4.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:31.3.0-1.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:31.3.0-1.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:31.3.0-3.el7_0
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-1590Low

Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams (MFSA 2014-85)

Dec 2, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201504-01
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3090
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3092
mozilla.org / security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-85.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
securityfocus.com / bid/71397