CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-1520.md

### [CVE-2014-1520](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1520)
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### Description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.