CVE-2014-1510 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1510?

CVE-2014-1510 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Web IDL implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by using an IDL fragment to trigger a window.open call.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1510?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opensuse Opensuse and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1510?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-1510 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2014-1510 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xmjr-qq5c-jp94.