CVE-2025-5264

firefox: thunderbird: Potential local code execution in “Copy as cURL” command

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

Review impact separately from score.

Published · May 27, 2025

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: Due to insufficient escaping of the newline character in the “Copy as cURL” feature, an attacker could trick a user into using this command, leading to local code execution on the user's system.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output