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CVE-2025-5268: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 139, Thunderbird 139, Firefox ESR 128.11, and Thunderbird 128.11

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-27 · updated 2026-10-05
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10. 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 was fixed in Firefox 139, Firefox ESR 128.11, Thunderbird 139, and Thunderbird 128.11.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 128.11.0; before 139.0 — fixed in 128.11.0, 139.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 128.11.0; from 129.0 before 139.0 — fixed in 128.11.0, 139.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 128.11.0, 139.0; Mozilla Thunderbird 128.11.0, 139.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1950136%2C1958121%2C1960499%2C1962634
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-42/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-44/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-45/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-46/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00043.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00046.html

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