Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1492

Title: Mozilla Network Security Services Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1492.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Mar 25, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1492: The cert_TestHostName function in lib/certdb/certdb.c in the certificate-checking implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.16 accepts a wildcard character that is embedded in an internationalized domain name's U-label, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 1

Reference Links

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 http://secunia.com/advisories/60621 http://secunia.com/advisories/60794 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-45.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66356 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2159-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903885 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079851 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.16_release_notes https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/709d4e597979 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 http://secunia.com/advisories/60621 http://secunia.com/advisories/60794 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-45.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66356 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2159-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903885 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079851 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.16_release_notes https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/709d4e597979 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1492 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 25, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.