Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization Affecting Firefox-ESR package, versions [,115.21.1)[116,128.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOXESR-9667330
  • published6 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2025
  • creditAndrew McCreight

Introduced: 26 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-2857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-653  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox-ESR to version 115.21.1, 128.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization in IPC handling, which allows a child process to expose a handle from its parent process that enables sandbox escape.

Note: This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1