CVE-2025-0246 (GCVE-0-2025-0246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 16:07 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:29
VLAI
Title
Address bar spoofing using an invalid protocol scheme on Firefox for Android
Summary
When using an invalid protocol scheme, an attacker could spoof the address bar. *Note: This issue only affected Android operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.* *Note: This issue is a different issue from CVE-2025-0244. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 134.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-08 15:49 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 134 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
James Lee
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