CVE-2014-1499 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1499?

CVE-2014-1499 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 19 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to spoof the domain name in the WebRTC (1) camera or (2) microphone permission prompt by triggering navigation at a certain time during generation of this prompt.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1499?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opensuse Opensuse, Opensuse Project Opensuse, Oracle Solaris, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1499?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-1499 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1499 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p22j-xcm8-97mv.