CVE-2025-0237 | WebChannel APIs susceptible to confused deputy attack

The WebChannel API, which is used to transport various information across processes, did not check the sending principal but rather accepted the principal being sent. This could have led to privilege escalation attacks. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 134, Firefox ESR 128.6, Thunderbird 134, and Thunderbird 128.6.

Published: 2025-01-07 Last update: 2026-04-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-0237 is rated Low Risk (34.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-0237

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-29 0.12% 0.16% +0.04%
2 2026-02-15 0.34% 0.12% -0.22%
3 2025-11-04 0.34%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-0237

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.5 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-0237

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-0237

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2025-0237: 3 source package rows (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird); 335 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 335. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-0237
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-0237 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 3 source packages (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird), 11 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 11. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-0237
gentoo high CVE-2025-0237: 3 GLSA(s) (202501-10, 202505-03, 202509-02), 5 atom(s) (dev-lang/spidermonkey, mail-client/thunderbird, mail-client/thunderbird-bin, www-client/firefox, www-client/firefox-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2025-0237
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0237
suse high CVE-2025-0237 severity important: SUSE including 40 source package names (MozillaFirefox-128.6.0-112.243.1, MozillaFirefox-128.6.0-150200.152.167.1, …), 145 product×package rows across 49 product lines (Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr, Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production, … (49 product lines)): Fixed 145. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0237/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-0237 medium priority: Ubuntu including 9 source packages (firefox, mozjs102, …), 65 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): DNE 34, ignored 10, needs-triage 10, not-affected 9, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0237

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-0237

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 128.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
mozilla firefox < 134.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird < 128.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird >= 129.0, < 134.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-0237

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