Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2025-4092

 

Buffer overflow in Firefox for Android and Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2025-4092

Published: April 29, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU108056
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4092
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Firefox for Android
Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2025-4092

Install updates from vendor's website.

Firefox for Android - update to 138.0
Mozilla Firefox - update to 138.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 138.0
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:140.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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