Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting Firefox package, versions [,141.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-12028660
  • published20 Aug 2025
  • disclosed19 Aug 2025
  • creditAxel Chong

Introduced: 19 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-8042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 141.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere via the handling of sandboxed iframes without the allow-downloads attribute. An attacker can initiate unauthorized downloads by embedding a sandboxed iframe and triggering download actions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1