Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. 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 < 142 and Thunderbird < 142.
History

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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Title firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 142 and Thunderbird 142
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:30:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Mozilla thunderbird
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Mozilla thunderbird

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-119
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:45:00 +0000

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Description Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. 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 < 142 and Thunderbird < 142.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2025-08-19T20:33:57.516Z

Updated: 2025-08-21T03:55:07.210Z

Reserved: 2025-08-19T15:56:10.269Z

Link: CVE-2025-9187

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-20T14:04:13.909Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-08-19T21:15:31.303

Modified: 2025-08-21T18:28:45.453

Link: CVE-2025-9187

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-08-19T20:33:57Z

Links: CVE-2025-9187 - Bugzilla