Is CVE-2014-1496 being actively exploited?

CVE-2014-1496 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-1496?

CVE-2014-1496 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2014-1496

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 might allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the extracted Mar contents during an update.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.5 (v3.1)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269
EPSS score: 0.4% (32th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2014-1572)
Published: March 19, 2014
NVD last modified: June 17, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-1572 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

mozilla / firefox
mozilla / seamonkey
mozilla / thunderbird
suse / suse linux enterprise desktop
suse / suse linux enterprise server
suse / 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/2014-03/msg00016.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-16.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925747(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
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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