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medium 6.5

CVE-2025-4088 json

Cross-site request forgery via storage access API redirects

published 2025-04-29 18 mo ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also EUVD-2025-12651

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A security vulnerability in Thunderbird allowed malicious sites to use redirects to send credentialed requests to arbitrary endpoints on any site that had invoked the Storage Access API. This enabled potential Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks across origins. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 138
  • mozilla thunderbird 138
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:140.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4088

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 153.0-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 138.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11373-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15045-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-4088 updated cvss 5.4

firefox: thunderbird: Cross-site request forgery via storage access API redirects

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird, firefox-flatpak-container, thunderbird-flatpak-container Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 firefox, thunderbird, firefox-flatpak-container, thunderbird-flatpak-container
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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