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Vulnerability record · CVE-2014-1500 · published 19 March 2014

CVE-2014-1500: Opensuse uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

Opensuse · Opensuse

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application hang) via onbeforeunload events that trigger background JavaScript execution.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 3.6% · top 10.8% CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
3.6%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
8Affected product versions listed by NVD
16References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application hang) via onbeforeunload events that trigger background JavaScript execution.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

8 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-20.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956524 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-20.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956524 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2014-1500), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.