CVE-2014-1480
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The file-download implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 does not properly restrict the timing of button selections, which allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks, and trigger unintended launching of a downloaded file, via a crafted web site.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| suse | 11.4 | affected | |
| suse | 12.3 | affected | |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 13.10 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
- http://osvdb.org/102867
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56888
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-03.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65331
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916726
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90897
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
- http://osvdb.org/102867
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56888
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-03.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65331
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720
CWEs
CWE-1021
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.