CVE-2014-1506 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1506?

CVE-2014-1506 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 19 Mar 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Android Crash Reporter in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 on Android allows attackers to trigger the transmission of local files to arbitrary servers, or cause a denial of service (application crash), via a crafted application that specifies Android Crash Reporter arguments.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1506?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1506?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1506 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-1506 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1506 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g42h-f457-2q4g.