CVE-2025-11712

medium

Description

A malicious page could have used the type attribute of an OBJECT tag to override the default browser behavior when encountering a web resource served without a content-type. This could have contributed to an XSS on a site that unsafely serves files without a content-type header. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 144, Firefox ESR < 140.4, Thunderbird < 144, and Thunderbird < 140.4.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-85/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-84/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-83/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-81/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979536

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-14

Updated: 2025-10-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018