CVE-2025-5268 (GCVE-0-2025-5268)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-27 12:29 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:06
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Summary
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 139, Firefox ESR < 128.11, Thunderbird < 139, and Thunderbird < 128.11.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 139 (custom)
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    Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 128.11 (custom)
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    Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 139 (custom)
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Credits
the Mozilla Fuzzing Team, Masayuki Nakano
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