Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome

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March 28, 2025, 12:31 PM

• •Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was being exploited in the wild.
• •The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-2857, presents a similar pattern to a bug that Google patched in its Chrome browser earlier this week.
• •Anyone exploiting the bug could escape Firefox's sandbox, which limits the browser's access to other apps and data on the user's computer.

Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was being exploited in the wild. The bug could allow attackers to escape Firefox's sandbox and access other apps and data on the user's computer. The bug also affects other browsers with the same codebase as Firefox for Windows, such as the Tor Browser.

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