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CVE-2014-1594

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1594 describes a critical vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. This flaw, stemming from an incorrect data type cast, could enable remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is moderately complex to exploit but carries significant potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.

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

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0341 is in the 82nd 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

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-2014-1594Moderate

Mozilla: Bad casting from the BasicThebesLayer to BasicContainerLayer (MFSA 2014-89)

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/mfsa2014-89.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
securityfocus.com / bid/71396