CVE-2025-5687

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

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-269

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Jun 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A 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).

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

Affected products

Mozilla · Mozilla VPN 2.28.0

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1953736 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-48/