FKIE_CVE-2025-6433

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-24 13:15 - Updated: 2026-04-13 15:17
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
If a user visited a webpage with an invalid TLS certificate, and granted an exception, the webpage was able to provide a WebAuthn challenge that the user would be prompted to complete. This is in violation of the WebAuthN spec which requires "a secure transport established without errors". This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1954033Permissions Required
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-51/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-54/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
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