Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2025-51

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 140

Announced
June 24, 2025
Impact
high
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 140

#CVE-2025-6424: Use-after-free in FontFaceSet

Reporter
LJP and HexRabbit (DEVCORE Research Team)
Impact
high
Description

A use-after-free in FontFaceSet resulted in a potentially exploitable crash.

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#CVE-2025-6425: The WebCompat WebExtension shipped with Firefox exposed a persistent UUID

Reporter
Rob Wu
Impact
moderate
Description

An attacker who enumerated resources from the WebCompat extension could have obtained a persistent UUID that identified the browser, and persisted between containers and normal/private browsing mode, but not profiles.

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#CVE-2025-6426: No warning when opening executable terminal files on macOS

Reporter
pwn2car
Impact
moderate
Description

The executable file warning did not warn users before opening files with the terminal extension.
This bug only affects Firefox for macOS. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.

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#CVE-2025-6427: connect-src Content Security Policy restriction could be bypassed

Reporter
Alan Li (lebr0nli)
Impact
moderate
Description

An attacker was able to bypass the connect-src directive of a Content Security Policy by manipulating subdocuments. This would have also hidden the connections from the Network tab in Devtools.

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#CVE-2025-6428: Firefox for Android opened URLs specified in a link querystring parameter

Reporter
Raul Bucata
Impact
moderate
Description

When a URL was provided in a link querystring parameter, Firefox for Android would follow that URL instead of the correct URL, potentially leading to phishing attacks.
This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.

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#CVE-2025-6429: Incorrect parsing of URLs could have allowed embedding of youtube.com

Reporter
Masato Kinugawa
Impact
moderate
Description

Firefox could have incorrectly parsed a URL and rewritten it to the youtube.com domain when parsing the URL specified in an embed tag. This could have bypassed website security checks that restricted which domains users were allowed to embed.

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#CVE-2025-6430: Content-Disposition header ignored when a file is included in an embed or object tag

Reporter
Daniil Satyaev (Positive Technologies)
Impact
moderate
Description

When a file download is specified via the Content-Disposition header, that directive would be ignored if the file was included via a <embed> or <object> tag, potentially making a website vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack.

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#CVE-2025-6431: The prompt in Firefox for Android that asks before opening a link in an external application could be bypassed

Reporter
Umar Farooq
Impact
low
Description

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications.
This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected.

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#CVE-2025-6432: DNS Requests leaked outside of a configured SOCKS proxy

Reporter
Albert
Impact
low
Description

When Multi-Account Containers was enabled, DNS requests could have bypassed a SOCKS proxy when the domain name was invalid or the SOCKS proxy was not responding.

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#CVE-2025-6433: WebAuthn would allow a user to sign a challenge on a webpage with an invalid TLS certificate

Reporter
Simon
Impact
low
Description

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".

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#CVE-2025-6434: HTTPS-Only exception screen lacked anti-clickjacking delay

Reporter
hafiizh & kang ali
Impact
low
Description

The exception page for the HTTPS-Only feature, displayed when a website is opened via HTTP, lacked an anti-clickjacking delay, potentially allowing an attacker to trick a user into granting an exception and loading a webpage over HTTP.

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#CVE-2025-6435: Save as in Devtools could download files without sanitizing the extension

Reporter
Ameen Basha M K
Impact
low
Description

If a user saved a response from the Network tab in Devtools using the Save As context menu option, that file may not have been saved with the .download file extension. This could have led to the user inadvertently running a malicious executable.

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#CVE-2025-6436: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140

Reporter
Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, Beth Rennie (she/her), the Mozilla Fuzzing Team
Impact
high
Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 139 and Thunderbird 139. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

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