Overview
The vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-10533 is a severe issue affecting multiple versions of the Firefox web browser, Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), and the Thunderbird email client. These are popular and widely-used software, making the vulnerability a significant concern for both individual users and organizations alike. This vulnerability carries a CVSS Severity Score of 8.8, indicating a high threat level that could potentially lead to a system compromise or data leakage if successfully exploited by malicious actors.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-10533
Severity: High (8.8 CVSS Severity Score)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Impact: System compromise or data leakage
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Product | Affected Versions
Firefox | < 143 Firefox ESR | < 115.28, < 140.3 Thunderbird | < 143, < 140.3 How the Exploit Works
The CVE-2025-10533 vulnerability is likely a result of a flaw in the way Firefox and Thunderbird handle specific network requests or process certain data types. While the specific exploit mechanism hasn’t been disclosed to the public, it’s safe to infer from the affected products and the nature of the vulnerability that the exploit may involve sending a specially crafted network request to the affected software, causing it to behave unexpectedly, and potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code or access sensitive data.
Conceptual Example Code
Below is a conceptual example of how this vulnerability might be exploited. Please note that this is a hypothetical example and should not be used for malicious purposes.
GET /example-path?payload=malicious_code_here HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1In this example, an attacker could use the ‘payload’ parameter to inject malicious code that exploits the vulnerability, leading to system compromise or data leakage.
It is highly recommended for all users and organizations to apply the vendor patch or use a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as a temporary mitigation to protect their systems from this critical vulnerability.
