CVE-2014-1507 — Directory traversal vulnerability in the DeviceStorage API in Mozilla FirefoxOS before 1.2.2 allows attackers to bypass the media sandbox protection mechanism, and read or modify arbitrary files, via a crafted application that uses a relative pathname for a DeviceStorageFile object

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the DeviceStorage API in Mozilla FirefoxOS before 1.2.2 allows attackers to bypass the media sandbox protection mechanism, and read or modify arbitrary files, via a crafted application that uses a relative pathname for a DeviceStorageFile object

Published Mar 19, 2014

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.10%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the DeviceStorage API in Mozilla FirefoxOS before 1.2.2 allows attackers to bypass the media sandbox protection mechanism, and read or modify arbitrary files, via a crafted application that uses a relative pathname for a DeviceStorageFile object.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.10% 0.01105

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01105

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.10% (0.01105)	64.55th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.10% (0.01105)	61.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.00% (0.00999)	75.43th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.35% (0.00354)	72.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.35% (0.00354)	71.20th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 14, 2023	0.35% (0.00354)	68.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.25% (0.00250)	61.03th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (3)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-25.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940684
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-25.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940684		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mozilla

Published Mar 19, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 16, 2014

Link CVE-2014-1507

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-1507

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-1507