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 and Firefox ESR < 128.11.
History

Fri, 30 May 2025 01:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Mozilla thunderbird
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Mozilla thunderbird

Thu, 29 May 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux

Thu, 29 May 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs
Weaknesses CWE-119
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 27 May 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-77
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 27 May 2025 12:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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 and Firefox ESR < 128.11.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2025-05-27T12:29:26.941Z

Updated: 2025-05-28T03:55:55.314Z

Reserved: 2025-05-27T12:29:26.556Z

Link: CVE-2025-5268

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-27T17:43:59.896Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-27T13:15:22.610

Modified: 2025-05-30T01:15:17.360

Link: CVE-2025-5268

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-05-27T12:29:26Z

Links: CVE-2025-5268 - Bugzilla