Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting Firefox package, versions [,139)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-10301396
  • published4 Jun 2025
  • disclosed27 May 2025
  • creditxiulou

Introduced: 27 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-5270  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 139 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information due to the improper handling of the SNI field. An attacker can intercept and read the SNI information by exploiting the lack of encryption even when encrypted DNS is enabled.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1