CVE-2025-2857

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.

Score
CVSS 3.1 10.0 Critical
Status
Modified - security@mozilla.org
Published
2025-03-27
Last modified
2026-10-05
Weaknesses
CWE-668

Affected products

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