CVE-2025-23109
Published: 11 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23109 is a medium-severity Origin Validation Error (CWE-346) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 21.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3123
Vulnerability details
Long hostnames in URLs could be leveraged to obscure the actual host of the website or spoof the website address. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox for iOS 134.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requires unique identification of the service before communications, addressing failures to validate the origin of the interaction.
Trusted path establishment enforces validation that the communication originates from and reaches only the intended trusted system components.
Enforces validation of the true origin of DNS responses via signatures and chain-of-trust mechanisms.
Enforces origin validation of name/address data, eliminating reliance on unverified or impersonated DNS sources.
Mandates origin validation so that only legitimate endpoints can continue the authenticated session.