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    CVE-2014-1520

    maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

    Published:Apr 30, 2014
    Last Modified:Nov 25, 2025
    EPS:Apr 30, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.00039
    CVSS Score:6.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Firefox

    Exploits

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
    http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High