CVE-2014-1483

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-1021

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 6, 2014
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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