CVE-2025-1935 | Clickjacking the registerProtocolHandler info-bar

A web page could trick a user into setting that site as the default handler for a custom URL protocol. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 136, Firefox ESR 128.8, Thunderbird 136, and Thunderbird 128.8.

Published: 2025-03-04 Last update: 2026-04-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-1935 is rated Low Risk (31.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.19%). 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-2025-1935

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 2026-04-12 0.30% 0.19% -0.11%
2 2026-01-15 0.36% 0.30% -0.06%
3 2025-12-29 0.36%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-1935

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/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:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
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:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-1935

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-1935

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2025-1935: 3 source package rows (firefox, firefox-esr, thunderbird); 342 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 342. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-1935
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-1935 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-2025-1935
gentoo high CVE-2025-1935: 3 GLSA(s) (202505-02, 202505-03, 202505-08), 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-2025-1935
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1935
suse high CVE-2025-1935 severity important: SUSE including 38 source package names (MozillaFirefox-128.8.0-112.249.3, MozillaFirefox-128.8.0-150200.152.173.1, …), 140 product×package rows across 48 product lines (Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr, Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production, … (48 product lines)): Fixed 140. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1935/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-1935 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 9, not-affected 9, released 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-1935

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-1935

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox < 128.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
mozilla firefox < 136.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird < 128.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla thunderbird >= 129.0, < 136.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-1935

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