CVE-2014-1559

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 certificate parsing outage) via a crafted certificate that does not use UTF-8 character encoding in a required context, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1558.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 23, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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