CVE-2014-1498: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 28.0 (fixed in 28.0)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.25 (fixed in 2.25)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only
• Opensuse Project Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.3 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 11 only

Published 2014-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.