Privilege escalation via content-supplied principal trust
Published Jan 7, 2025 · Updated Apr 13, 2026
Incorrect authorization in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 134 and ESR before 128.6 allows attackers to escalate privileges. WebChannelParent accepted a principal supplied in a content message and used it for callback and permission checks instead of deriving the sender principal from the window actor. Exploitation requires prior arbitrary code execution in a hostile content process and can invoke privileged parent-process WebChannel handlers.
Summary
What happened
Incorrect authorization in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 134 and ESR before 128.6 allows attackers to escalate privileges. WebChannelParent accepted a principal supplied in a content message and used it for callback and permission checks instead of deriving the sender principal from the window actor. Exploitation requires prior arbitrary code execution in a hostile content process and can invoke privileged parent-process WebChannel handlers.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-0237
- Published
- Jan 7, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 13, 2026
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-863, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 7, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- WebChannel check-bypass proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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