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Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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Published: 12/01/2025 (12/01/2025, 02:53:51 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified and addressed in Mozilla Firefox as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. These include issues such as mitigation bypasses, use-after-free bugs, same-origin policy bypasses, race conditions, and spoofing vulnerabilities affecting various components like DOM, Audio/Video, WebAssembly, WebRTC, Graphics, and Notifications. Red Hat has released an important security update to fix these issues in Firefox version 140.5.0-1.el9_4 across multiple architectures.

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Technical Analysis

This Red Hat security advisory addresses nine distinct vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, including CVE-2025-13012 (race condition in Graphics), CVE-2025-13013 and CVE-2025-13018 (mitigation bypasses in DOM components), CVE-2025-13014 and CVE-2025-13020 (use-after-free in Audio/Video and WebRTC components), CVE-2025-13015 (spoofing), CVE-2025-13016 (incorrect boundary conditions in JavaScript WebAssembly), CVE-2025-13017 and CVE-2025-13019 (same-origin policy bypasses in DOM Workers and Notifications). Red Hat has issued updates for Firefox in RHEL 9.4 Extended Update Support to remediate these vulnerabilities. The advisory references fixes for these CVEs and provides updated package versions for multiple architectures.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities collectively impact the security of Firefox by allowing potential mitigation bypasses, use-after-free memory corruption, same-origin policy bypasses, race conditions, and spoofing attacks. These issues could lead to unauthorized code execution, information disclosure, or security policy violations within the browser environment. The advisory rates the overall impact as Important (high severity). No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of this advisory.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated Firefox packages (version 140.5.0-1.el9_4) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related variants. Users should apply these official updates promptly to remediate the vulnerabilities. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since this is an official fix, applying the update fully mitigates the described security issues.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2025:22374
Cve Count
9
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-13013","CVE-2025-13014","CVE-2025-13015","CVE-2025-13016","CVE-2025-13017","CVE-2025-13018","CVE-2025-13019","CVE-2025-13020"]

Threat ID: 6a419ca927e9c79719ab8163

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:01 UTC

Last enriched: 06/28/2026, 22:17:46 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC

Views: 9

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