Following the recent Chrome sandbox escape (CVE-2025-2783), various Firefox developers identified a similar pattern in our IPC code. A compromised child process could cause the parent process to return an unintentionally powerful handle, leading to a sandbox escape. The original vulnerability was being exploited in the wild. This only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.

An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript Promise object. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 115.23.1.

An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript object by confusing array index sizes.

Chromium: CVE-2023-4863 Heap buffer overflow in WebP

Chromium: CVE-2023-5217 Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx