VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-1539

medium
Published 2014-06-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 and Thunderbird through 24.6 on OS X do not ensure visibility of the cursor after interaction with a Flash object and a DIV element, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via JavaScript code that produces a fake cursor image.

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.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"29.0.1"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"24.6"}
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.1.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird24.5

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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