CVE-2025-6433 (GCVE-0-2025-6433)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-24 12:28
Modified
2025-10-30 16:13
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 140
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