CVE-2025-2857

Summary

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 Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1956398
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405143032
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2783
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-19/

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