# CVE-2014-1520: maintenservice\_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-04-30 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html

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