CVE-2025-4088
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A security vulnerability (CVE-2025-4088) was discovered in Thunderbird and Firefox that allowed malicious sites to use redirects to send credentialed requests to arbitrary endpoints on any site that had invoked the Storage Access API. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 138 and Thunderbird < 138, and was disclosed on April 29, 2025 (Mozilla Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue with a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability was identified and reported by Chris P. Fredrickson (Mozilla Advisory, NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability enables potential Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks across origins, allowing malicious sites to send credentialed requests to arbitrary endpoints on sites that have invoked the Storage Access API (Mozilla Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138. Users are advised to upgrade to these versions or later to mitigate the security risk (Mozilla Advisory).

Additional resources


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