CVE-2014-8637

Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly initialize memory for BMP images, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web page that triggers the rendering of malformed BMP data within a CANVAS element.

Published: 2015-01-14 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-8637 is rated Moderate Risk (49.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.17%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.68% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8637

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 0.49% 2.17% +1.68%
2 2025-03-30 0.77% 0.49% -0.28%
3 2025-03-29 0.77%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-8637

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/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:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
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.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-8637

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-8637

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2014-8637: 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-2014-8637
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8637
suse medium CVE-2014-8637 severity moderate: SUSE including 82 source package names (MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1, …), 160 product×package rows across 32 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (32 product lines)): Fixed 129, Known Not Affected 31. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8637/
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-8637 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 4, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8637

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-8637

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla seamonkey <= 2.31 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox <= 34.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-8637

URL Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00032.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00036.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62242
http://secunia.com/advisories/62250
http://secunia.com/advisories/62253
http://secunia.com/advisories/62316
http://secunia.com/advisories/62418
http://secunia.com/advisories/62446
http://secunia.com/advisories/62790
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2015-02.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72048
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031533
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1094536
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99957
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
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