CVE-2014-1501: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 on Android allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access arbitrary file: URLs via vectors involving the "Open Link in New Tab" menu selection.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 27.0.1; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 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.