CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2014-1483

MEDIUMEPSS 83th pctl
5.0
CVSS v2
NVD

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available
DeveloperEditionWindows application
Affected:27.0Fixed in:27.0Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox (en-US)Windows application
Affected:27.0Fixed in:27.0Mozilla

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

2.47%probability of exploitation in 30 days
83rdpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 83% of all known CVEs.

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-29.