CVE-2014-1488

critical
Published 2014-02-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving termination of a worker process that has performed a cross-thread object-passing operation in conjunction with use of asm.js.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950604

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-11.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse11affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.10affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"27.0"}27.0
mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.24"}2.24

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.