CVE-2025-55028 (GCVE-0-2025-55028)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 20:52 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:31
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Title
JavaScript alerts could impede UI interaction or allow denial of service attacks
Summary
Malicious scripts utilizing repetitive JavaScript alerts could prevent client user interaction in some scenarios and allow for denial of service attacks. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox for iOS 142.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox for iOS Unaffected: 142 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Antoine Morin
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