CVE-2025-2857CRITICAL 10.0EPSS p76.6%
CVE-2025-2857CVE-2025-2857
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 10.0 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 1.87% probability of exploitation · percentile 76.6% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2025-03-27 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-13 |
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Exposure of Resource to Wrong Spherecwe-668 | 0% | live |
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