CVE-2025-8031
The `username:password` part was not correctly stripped from URLs in CSP reports potentially leaking HTTP Basic Authentication credentials.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The `username:password` part was not correctly stripped from URLs in CSP reports potentially leaking HTTP Basic Authentication credentials. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 141, Firefox ESR 128.13, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird 141, Thunderbird 128.13, and Thunderbird 140.1.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.51% probability · 43th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-276
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 0.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1971719Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-56/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-58/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-59/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-61/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-62/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-63/Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00016.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.