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CVE-2014-1589

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect...

6.8 MediumFix available

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Exploit likelihood

1.80%Up 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.8

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Record
CVE-2014-1589
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-284
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Record
CVE-2014-1589
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-1665 No score

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Record
EUVD-2014-1665
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-grpw-qvqh-xgxx No score

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect...

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Record
GHSA-grpw-qvqh-xgxx
Weakness
CWE-284
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2014-0518 No score

Updated iceape package fixes security vulnerabilities

When the oxygen-gtk was active and iceape tried to draw a menu (for example after a mouse down event on the menu bar), a segmentation fault was triggered causing iceape to crash. The oxygen-gtk theme engine contains a solution for this problem, this is now enabled for iceape. (MGA #12978)

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588)

A method was found to trigger chrome level XML Binding Language (XBL) bindings through web content. This was possible because some chrome accessible CSS stylesheets had their primary namespace improperly declared. When this occurred, it was possible to use these stylesheets to manipulate XBL bindings, allowing web content to bypass security restrictions. This issue was limited to a specific set of stylesheets. (CVE-2014-1589)

In Iceape (seamonkey) before version 2.31, passing a JavaScript object to XMLHttpRequest that mimics an input stream will result in a crash. This crash is not exploitable and can only be used for denial of service attacks. (CVE-2014-1590)

Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports triggered by a redirect did not remove path information as required by the CSP specification in Iceape (seamonkey) 2.30. This potentially reveals information about the redirect that would not otherwise be known to the original site. This could be used by a malicious site to obtain sensitive information such as usernames or single-sign-on tokens encoded within the target URLs. (CVE-2014-1591)

In Iceape (seamonkey) before version 2.31, a use-after-free could be created by triggering the creation of a second root element while parsing HTML written to a document created with document.open(). This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2014-1592)

A buffer overflow during the parsing of media content was found using the Address Sanitizer tool. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2014-1593)

A bad casting from the BasicThebesLayer to BasicContainerLayer resulted in undefined behavior. This behavior is potentially exploitable with some compilers but no clear mechanism to trigger it through web content was identified. (CVE-2014-1594)

When chrome objects are protected by Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and are passed as native interfaces, if this is done with some methods, normally protected objects may be accessible to native methods exposed to web content. (CVE-2014-8631)

When XrayWrappers filter object properties and validation of the object initially occurs, one set of object properties will appear to be available. Later, when the XrayWrappers are removed, a more expansive set of properties is available. These are then stored without further validation, making these properties available and bypassing security protections that would normally protect them from access. (CVE-2014-8632)

Record
MGASA-2014-0518
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 No score

MozillaFirefox-50.1.0-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the MozillaFirefox-50.1.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10218-1 No score

seamonkey-2.40-6.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the seamonkey-2.40-6.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10218-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 No score

firefox-esr-128.5.1-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the firefox-esr-128.5.1-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-1589 No score

Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 provide stylesheets with an incorrect primary namespace, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an XBL binding.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1589
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2424-1 No score

firefox vulnerabilities

Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, Max Jonas Werner, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Eric Rahm, Byron Campen, Eric Rescorla, and Xidorn Quan discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588)

Cody Crews discovered a way to trigger chrome-level XBL bindings from web content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions. (CVE-2014-1589)

Joe Vennix discovered a crash when using XMLHttpRequest in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-1590)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP violation reports did not remove path information in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2014-1591)

Berend-Jan Wever discovered a use-after-free during HTML parsing. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1592)

Abhishek Arya discovered a buffer overflow when parsing media content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1593)

Byoungyoung Lee, Chengyu Song, and Taesoo Kim discovered a bad cast in the compositor. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause undefined behaviour, a denial of service via application crash or execute abitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1594)

Record
USN-2424-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
iceape
Mageia:4
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 2.31-3.mga4
2.31-3.mga4
firefox
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
24.0+build1-0ubuntu125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.128.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu228.0+build1-0ubuntu128.0+build2-0ubuntu1
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28.0+build2-0ubuntu229.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.230.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.331.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.132.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.132.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
firefox
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
24.0+build1-0ubuntu125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.128.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu228.0+build1-0ubuntu128.0+build2-0ubuntu1
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28.0+build2-0ubuntu229.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.230.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.331.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.132.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.132.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
MozillaFirefox
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 899 CVEs
before 50.1.0-1.1
50.1.0-1.1
firefox-esr
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 1860 CVEs
before 128.5.1-1.1
128.5.1-1.1

History

History
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aliasesEUVD
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In short

CVE-2014-1589 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Mozilla Firefox, published December 2, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.80%, the 78th percentile. Fixed in firefox 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.

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