CVE-2014-1566 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1566?

CVE-2014-1566 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 3 Sep 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

Mozilla Firefox before 31.1 on Android does not properly restrict copying of local files onto the SD card during processing of file: URLs, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from the Firefox profile directory via a crafted application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1515.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1566?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1566?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1566 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-1566 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1566 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

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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

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fxqm-4c8h-5v9p.