CVE-2014-1540
"Mozilla Firefox Event Listener Manager Use-after-free Vulnerability"
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::CompileEventHandlerInternal function in the Event Listener Manager in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via crafted web content.
INFO
Published Date :
June 11, 2014, 10:57 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE-2014-1540 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00040.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00001.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59052 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59171 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59387 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59486 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-51.html Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67978 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030388 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2243-1 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978862 Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 28, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2243-1 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00040.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 07, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59486 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 22, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 04, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jun. 11, 2014
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2014-1540 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2014-1540
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.39 }} -1.14%
score
0.57198
percentile