CVE-2014-1491

Exp

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms in ticket handling by leveraging use of a certain value.

Published: 2014-02-06 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-1491 is rated High Exploit Risk (68/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.66%, 91th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.14% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-1491

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-1491

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.53% 4.66% +4.14%
2 2026-03-27 0.45% 0.53% +0.08%
3 2026-03-13 0.45%

Full EPSS history (41 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-1491

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-1491

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-1491

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-1491 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nss), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1491
gentoo normal CVE-2014-1491: 1 GLSA(s) (201504-01), 7 atom(s) (dev-libs/nspr, mail-client/thunderbird, …); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-1491
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1491
suse medium CVE-2014-1491 severity moderate: SUSE including 163 source package names (MozillaFirefox-140.2.0-160000.1.2, MozillaFirefox-24.3.0esr-0.4.2.1, …), 251 product×package rows across 47 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (47 product lines)): Fixed 215, Known Not Affected 36. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1491/
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-1491 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firefox, nss, thunderbird), 15 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, saucy, upstream): released 9, not-affected 4, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1491

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-1491

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 24.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox < 27.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla network_security_services < 3.15.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:network_security_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla seamonkey < 2.24 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird < 24.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle enterprise_manager_ops_center < 12.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_manager_ops_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle enterprise_manager_ops_center 12.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_manager_ops_center:12.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle enterprise_manager_ops_center 12.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_manager_ops_center:12.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle enterprise_manager_ops_center 12.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_manager_ops_center:12.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle vm_server 3.2 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_server:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
fedoraproject fedora 19 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 20 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 11.4 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 12.3 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux_enterprise_desktop 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux_enterprise_server 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux_enterprise_server 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:vmware:*:*
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 13.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-1491

URL Tags
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/12c42006aed8 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127966.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129218.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00005.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 Not Applicable
http://secunia.com/advisories/56858 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/56888 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/56922 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2858 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-12.html Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded Not Applicable
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65332 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029720 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029721 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2102-2 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2119-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html Not Applicable
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934545 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90886 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
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