CVE-2025-5687 — Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla VPN clients for macOS v2.27.0 and below.

CVE-2025-5687

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

Description (CNA)

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).

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Mozilla / Mozilla VPN 2.28.0	unaffected (macOS) through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1953736
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-48/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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