CVE-2025-9179

An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979527	Issue Tracking Permissions Required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-64/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-65/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-66/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-67/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-70/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-71/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-72/	Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00016.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00018.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::esr:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::esr:::*

History

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Information

Published : 2025-08-19 21:15

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:08

NVD link : CVE-2025-9179

Mitre link : CVE-2025-9179

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-9179

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Products Affected

mozilla

thunderbird
firefox

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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