Firefox Focus elide URL allows address bar spoofing
Priority LOW 27CWE-451Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-451.
Summary
Websites directing users to long URLs that caused eliding to occur in the location view could leverage the truncating behavior to potentially trick users into thinking they were on a different webpage. This vulnerability was fixed in Focus 138.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00208 10th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Focus (Mozilla): 138
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Focus (Mozilla) Fixed in 138
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-3859
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4jh7-c2vv-7qf2
References
More Mozilla Firefox Focus vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-09832 Use after free in Mozilla Firefox KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2022-09831 Use after free in Mozilla Firefox KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-11015 Authentication bypass by spoofing in Mozilla Firefox CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-34723 Passkey phishing within Bluetooth range CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-13902 Different techniques existed to obscure the fullscreen notification in Firefox and Focus… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2024-09702 Improper authentication in Mozilla Focus for iOS CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2025-3859 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-3859 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4jh7-c2vv-7qf2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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