Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138. 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 Thunderbird < 139.
History

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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Description Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138. 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. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138 and Thunderbird 138. 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 Thunderbird < 139.
References

Wed, 28 May 2025 19:00:00 +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:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla
Mozilla firefox
Mozilla thunderbird

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:45:00 +0000

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Title firefox: Memory safety bugs
Weaknesses CWE-119
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


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

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-787
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, '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 and Thunderbird 138. 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.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2025-05-27T12:29:30.199Z

Updated: 2025-06-11T12:07:49.151Z

Reserved: 2025-05-27T12:29:29.796Z

Link: CVE-2025-5272

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-27T15:05:43.847Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-05-27T13:15:23.023

Modified: 2025-06-11T12:15:28.840

Link: CVE-2025-5272

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-05-27T12:29:30Z

Links: CVE-2025-5272 - Bugzilla