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1 vulnerability found for Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 by Mozilla
CVE-2025-5687 (GCVE-0-2025-5687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-11 12:07
Modified
2026-04-13 14:31
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Summary
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).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Mozilla VPN 2.28.0 |
Unaffected: (macOS) |
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