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CVE-2025-2857

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2025-03-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Following the recent Chrome sandbox escape (CVE-2025-2783), various Firefox developers identified a similar pattern in our IPC code. A compromised child process could cause the parent process to return an unintentionally powerful handle, leading to a sandbox escape. The original vulnerability was being exploited in the wild. *This only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 136.0.4, Firefox ESR 128.8.1, and Firefox ESR 115.21.1.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo, CWE-668

References