CVE-2014-1559: mozilla firefox
CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-1559
Published 23-07-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2014-1559 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)EPSS score
1.71%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 daysKEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 3Timeline
- 23-07-2014PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionMedium 4.3Preferred score · NVD (NIST)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PSourcesSingle source
EPSS trend
Probability
1.71%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
77%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.71% on 19-09-2026
19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score1.71%
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Mozilla2 products
- firefox≤ 30.0
- thunderbird≤ 24.7 | 24.0 | 24.0.1 | 24.1 | 24.1.1 | 24.2 | 24.3 | 24.4 | 24.5 | 24.6
Ubuntu2 products
- firefox< 31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
- thunderbird< 1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2 vendors · 4 products
References
12 links- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026022X Refsource CONFIRM