CVE-2014-1483

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedFeb 6, 2014
First seenFeb 6, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • mozilla firefox27.0 or later
  • mozilla seamonkey2.24 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv < 27.027.0
oracle solaris11.3—
canonical ubuntu_linux12.04, 12.10, 13.10—
mozilla seamonkeyv < 2.242.24
suse suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit11.0—
opensuse opensuse11.4, 12.3, 13.1—
suse linux_enterprise_desktop11—
suse linux_enterprise_server11—

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