CVE-2025-1013 Potential opening of private browsing tabs in normal browsing windows

What is CVE-2025-1013?

CVE-2025-1013 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 4 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A race condition could have led to private browsing tabs being opened in normal browsing windows. This could have resulted in a potential privacy leak. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 135, Firefox ESR 128.7, Thunderbird 128.7, and Thunderbird 135.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1013?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2025-1013?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2025-1013 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1013 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-1013, GHSA-3pgx-69pv-46wx, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-1013.