CVE-2025-6433

critical

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 affects Firefox < 140 and Thunderbird < 140.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-54/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-51/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1954033

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-24

Updated: 2025-07-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00011