CVE-2014-1505

HIGH 7.5CVE-2014-1505 · Published 19/03/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-1505 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), seamonkey (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.0%, higher than 90.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 24.4, 28.0, 2.25 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≥ 24.0, < 24.4< 28.0`	`24.428.0`
seamonkey mozilla	`< 2.25`	`2.25`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 24.4`	`24.4`
suse linux enterprise software development kit novell	`= 11.0`	No fix yet

Description

The SVG filter implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive displacement-correlation information, and possibly bypass the Same Origin Policy and read text from a different domain, via a timing attack involving feDisplacementMap elements, a related issue to CVE-2013-1693.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0310.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0316.html · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2881 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2911 · Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-28.html · Vendor Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/66418 · Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2151-1 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 · Third Party Advisory

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