Description
If a user visited a webpage with an invalid TLS certificate, and granted an exception, the webpage was able to provide a WebAuthn challenge that the user would be prompted to complete. This is in violation of the WebAuthN spec which requires "a secure transport established without errors". This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140.
Affected products
mozilla: firefox
References3
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-51/ Vendor Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1954033 Permissions Required
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-54/
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 23 · as of 7 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-295
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