Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla VPN clients for macOS v2.27.0 and below.

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Summary

CVECVE-2025-5687
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermozilla
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2025-06-11 12:15:29 UTC
Updated2026-04-13 15:17:05 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in Mozilla VPN on macOS allows privilege escalation from a normal user to root. *This bug only affects Mozilla VPN on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 (macOS).

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from ADP

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.000660000 probability, percentile 0.203770000 (date 2026-04-15)

Problem Types: CWE-269 | CWE-269 CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1ADPDECLARED7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Vpn All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Mozilla Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 unaffected (macOS) * rpm Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-48 [email protected] www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi [email protected] bugzilla.mozilla.org Permissions Required
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Egor Filatov (Positive Technologies) (en)

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