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CVE-2014-1487
The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive authentication information via vectors involving error messages.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 16% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
33
- USN-2119-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=Y2fux-JW1Qc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1029721 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947592 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1029717 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 65330 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- mozilla-cve20141487-info-disc(90889) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://8pecxstudios.com/?page_id=44080 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0132 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 56922 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56787 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1029720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 56858 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 56763 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-2102-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 102873 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0133 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201504-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=VYQsgaFpQ2k (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56888 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-2083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0419 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 56761 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-2041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:0248 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2102-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 56767 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-09.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-1563 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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