CVE-2014-1483
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-1021
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.htmlAdvisory
- http://osvdb.org/102869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56706
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56767
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56787
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56888