CVE-2014-1483
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-1021
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-1559)
- Published
- February 6, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-1559 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- oracle / solaris
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / suse linux enterprise software development kit
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/102869(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56706(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56767(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56787(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56888(Broken Link)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-05.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65316(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2(Third Party Advisory)
- https://8pecxstudios.com/?page_id=44080(Broken Link, URL Repurposed)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950427(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90893(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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