CVE-2025-5270 (GCVE-0-2025-5270)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-27 12:29 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
SNI was sometimes unencrypted
Summary
In certain cases, SNI could have been sent unencrypted even when encrypted DNS was enabled. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 139 and Thunderbird 139.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-23 14:33 UTC
CWE
- CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox |
Unaffected:
139 , ≤ *
(rpm)
|
guessed | |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird |
Unaffected:
139 , ≤ *
(rpm)
|
guessed |
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