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Mozilla VPN Privilege Escalation Vulnerability on macOS

Vulnerability

A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla VPN for macOS, allowing a normal user to gain root access. This issue affects versions of Mozilla VPN through 2.27.0 on macOS. The vulnerability is not present in other operating systems.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for unauthorized privilege escalation, enabling a normal user to gain root access on the system.

Remediation

Users can upgrade to Mozilla VPN version 2.28.0 for macOS to address this vulnerability.

Added: Jun 11, 2025, 12:17 PM
Updated: Jun 11, 2025, 2:26 PM

Vulnerability Rating

Custom Algorithm
spread
0.0
impact
7.5
exploitability
3.3
remediation
7.7
relevance
0.2
threat
0.0
urgency
2.9
incentive
0.8

Our algorithm analyzes dozens of metrics to generate these 8 key vulnerability categories, which are then combined to calculate the overall risk score.