CVE-2025-4085 (GCVE-0-2025-4085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-29 13:13 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:28
VLAI
Title
Potential information leakage and privilege escalation in UITour actor
Summary
An attacker with control over a content process could potentially leverage the privileged UITour actor to leak sensitive information or escalate privileges. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 138 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 138 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Andrew McCreight
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