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CVE-2025-5687 (GCVE-0-2025-5687)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-11 12:07 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:31
VLAI
Title
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla VPN clients for macOS v2.27.0 and below.
Summary
A vulnerability in Mozilla VPN on macOS allows privilege escalation from a normal user to root. *This bug only affects Mozilla VPN on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 (macOS).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-14 03:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 Unaffected: (macOS) , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Egor Filatov (Positive Technologies)
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