CVE-2014-8637
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.2%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly initialize memory for BMP images, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web page that triggers the rendering of malformed BMP data within a CANVAS element.
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-200
- EPSS score
- 2.2% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8474)
- Published
- January 14, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8474 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62242
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62250
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62253
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62316
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62418
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62446
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62790
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2015-02.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72048
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031533
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1094536
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99957
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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