CVE-2025-5687

7.8 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.8) in mozilla vpn. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2025-06-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:vpn

References

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

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