SB2025070789 - Fedora 42 update for thunderbird
Published: July 7, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 vulnerabilities.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6424)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in FontFaceSet. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6425)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the WebCompat extension shipped with Firefox allows to enumerate resources and obtain a persistent UUID that identifies the browser, and persists between containers and normal/private browsing mode, but not profiles.
3) Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6426)
CWE-ID: CWE-357 - Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the terminal extension does not show a warning when opening an executable terminal filer on macOS. A remote attacker can trick the victim into executing an executable file and compromise the affected system.
Note, the vulnerability affects macOS installations only.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6429)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect parsing of embedded URLs that led to URLs being rewritten to the youtube.com domain. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted embed tag to bypass website security checks that restricted which domains users were allowed to embed.
5) Protection Mechanism Failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6430)
CWE-ID: CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling embed or object tags. When a file download is specified via the Content-Disposition header, that directive would be ignored if the file was included via a <embed> or <object> tag, potentially making a website vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.