CVE-2025-6433

CRITICAL

Mozilla Firefox < 140.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

If a user visited a webpage with an invalid TLS certificate, and granted an exception, the webpage was able to provide a WebAuthn challenge that the user would be prompted to complete. This is in violation of the WebAuthN spec which requires "a secure transport established without errors". This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 40.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 140.0
Mozilla/Firefox 140
Mozilla/Thunderbird 140
Published Jun 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026