THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-1557
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-1557

Solaris vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The ConvolveHorizontally function in Skia, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, does not properly handle the discarding of image data during function execution, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering prolonged image scaling, as demonstrated by scaling of a high-quality image.
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Solaris
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2014-07-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-1557

  • Confirm whether Oracle Solaris is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-1557.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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