CVE-2025-5687

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5687

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5687.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-5687

Published

2025-06-11T12:07:49.739Z

Modified

2026-08-12T03:51:48.032767197Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

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

Details

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).

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "mozilla",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/5xxx/CVE-2025-5687.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client

Events

Introduced

Fixed

bb7d5d6298496b1d069193c2b60067f1f84834d3

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.28.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:vpn:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.0.1

v2.0.3

v2.1.0

v2.26.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5687.json"