CVE-2014-1520

medium
Published 2014-04-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

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.

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=961676

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
fedora fedora19affected
fedora fedora20affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"29.0"}29.0

References

CWEs

CWE-269

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