Protection Mechanism Failure in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2025-5271

 

Protection Mechanism Failure in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2025-5271

Published: May 27, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU109880
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-5271
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to Devtools ignores CSP headers when previewing content. A remote attacker can perform content injection attacks.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2025-5271

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 139.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 139.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 139.0
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:140.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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