CVE-2014-8631
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 supports native-interface passing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions via a call to an unspecified method.
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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References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-91.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821573
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-91.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821573
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.