Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Multiple Products WebIDL Remote Code Execution (CVE-2014-1510; CVE-2014-1511)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1630
Date Published: 10 Jun 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 27 December, 2016
Source: Mozilla mfsa2014-29
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-1510
CVE-2014-1511
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Mozilla Foundation Firefox ESR prior to 24.4
Mozilla Foundation SeaMonkey prior to 2.25
Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird prior to 24.4
Vulnerability Description A privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. The vulnerability is due to a failed security check on a chrome:// URL. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted webpage. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution within the security context of the target user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Multiple Products WebIDL Remote Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Mozilla Multiple Products WebIDL Remote Code Execution

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