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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2025-55030

Severity Medium
Score 6.1/10

Summary

Firefox for iOS would not respect a Content-Disposition header of type Attachment and would incorrectly display the content inline rather than downloading, potentially allowing for XSS attacks. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox for iOS 142.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
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  • NONE

CWE-640 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The software contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published