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CVE-2025-2817 (GCVE-0-2025-2817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-29 13:13 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:27
VLAI
Title
Privilege escalation in Thunderbird Updater
Summary
Thunderbird's update mechanism allowed a medium-integrity user process to interfere with the SYSTEM-level updater by manipulating the file-locking behavior. By injecting code into the user-privileged process, an attacker could bypass intended access controls, allowing SYSTEM-level file operations on paths controlled by a non-privileged user and enabling privilege escalation. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, Firefox ESR 115.23, Thunderbird 138, and Thunderbird 128.10.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-30 03:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 115.23 , ≤ 115.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 128.10 , ≤ 128.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 138 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 128.10 , ≤ 128.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 138 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Dong-uk Kim (@justlikebono)
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