CVE-2025-5687

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

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jun 11, 2025
Updated: Apr 13, 2026
Reserved: Jun 4, 2025

Description

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).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Mozilla VPN 2.28.0Mozilla	(macOS) and laterNot affected

References

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

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