CVE-2025-11712
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
A malicious page could have used the type attribute of an OBJECT tag to override the default browser behavior when encountering a web resource served without a content-type. This could have contributed to an XSS on a site that unsafely serves files without a content-type header. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 144, Firefox ESR 140.4, Thunderbird 144, and Thunderbird 140.4.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.1
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2025-10-14 13:15:37.447000
Last modified
2026-10-23 22:10:00.160000
View original CVE JSON
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"lastModified": "2026-10-23T22:10:00.160",
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