Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird…

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-326 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-326 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (32)

• USN-2119-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1029721 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:0212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• firefox-nss-cve20141491-unspecified(90886) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1029717 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-2994 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 65332 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 56922 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934545 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1029720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 56858 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-2858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2102-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• GLSA-201504-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-12.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 56888 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-2083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:0419 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-2041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:0248 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:0213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2102-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2014-1491](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-1491.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-1491)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:42 UTC.