CVE-2014-1483

N/A
Published: February 6, 2014 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM UTC
8 products affected across 5 vendorsUbuntu LinuxFirefoxopenSUSE

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information by using an IFRAME element in conjunction with certain timing measurements involving the document.caretPositionFromPoint and document.elementFromPoint functions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 27.0
Affected range stops below 27.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 2.24
Affected range stops below 2.24, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (19)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDBBroken Link
http://osvdb.org/102869
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/56706
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/56767
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/56787
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/56888

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-1021

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