CVE-2023-25729: mozilla firefox Incorrect Authorization
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-25729 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 31 · Related 9Timeline
- 02-06-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-01-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for <code>ContentPrincipals</code> resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via <code>ExpandedPrincipals</code>. This could lead to further malicious actions such as downloading files or interacting with software already installed on the system. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 110, Thunderbird < 102.8, and Firefox ESR < 102.8.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.68%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
52%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.68% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu7 products
- firefox< 110.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | < 110.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs68All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs78All versions (No fix recorded)
Mozilla3 products
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 110 | < 110.0
- firefox_esr≥ unspecified, < 102.8 | < 102.8
- thunderbird≥ unspecified, < 102.8 | < 102.8
Debian2 products
- firefox-esr< 102.8.0esr-1
- thunderbird< 1:102.8.0-1
3 vendors · 12 products
References
11 links- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-06/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-05/Vendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-07/Vendor Advisory
