CVE-2014-1520 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1520?

CVE-2014-1520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 30 Apr 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1520?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1520?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1520 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-1520 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1520 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f8rp-8hgw-hrhp.