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Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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Published: 07/31/2025 (07/31/2025, 07:52:19 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. Security Fix(es): * firefox: thunderbird: Large branch table could lead to truncated instruction (CVE-2025-8028) * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-8035) * firefox: thunderbird: Incorrect URL stripping in CSP reports (CVE-2025-8031) * firefox: thunderbird: JavaScript engine only wrote partial return value to stack (CVE-2025-8027) * firefox: thunderbird: Potential user-assisted code execution in ?Copy as cURL? command (CVE-2025-8030) * firefox: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-8034) * firefox: thunderbird: Incorrect JavaScript state machine for generators (CVE-2025-8033) * firefox: thunderbird: XSLT documents could bypass CSP (CVE-2025-8032) * firefox: thunderbird: javascript: URLs executed on object and embed tags (CVE-2025-8029) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

Affected versions
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2)srcfirefox-0:128.13.0-1.el8_2.src

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Machine-generated threat intelligence

AILast updated: 06/25/2026, 06:01:55 UTC

Technical Analysis

This Red Hat security advisory (RHSA-2025:12353) covers a set of nine vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, including CVE-2025-8027 and related CVEs. The issues include memory safety bugs, a large branch table leading to truncated instructions, incorrect URL stripping in Content Security Policy (CSP) reports, partial return value writes in the JavaScript engine stack, potential user-assisted code execution via the 'Copy as cURL' command, incorrect JavaScript state machine behavior for generators, CSP bypass via XSLT documents, and execution of javascript: URLs on object and embed tags. The advisory provides an update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 AUS with fixes for these vulnerabilities. No CVSS base scores are included in the advisory; users are directed to the individual CVE pages for detailed scoring. The update is classified as important by Red Hat Product Security.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities addressed include memory safety issues that could lead to crashes or potentially exploitable conditions, incorrect enforcement of CSP which could allow bypass of security policies, partial writes in the JavaScript engine that could cause unpredictable behavior, and potential user-assisted code execution through specific commands. These issues collectively pose a high security risk by potentially enabling code execution or bypassing security controls in Firefox and Thunderbird. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of the advisory.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released an official security update for Firefox in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply this update promptly to remediate the issues. For detailed update instructions, refer to Red Hat's official article at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations or workarounds are specified in the advisory.

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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-2025:12353
Cve Count
9
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-8028","CVE-2025-8029","CVE-2025-8030","CVE-2025-8031","CVE-2025-8032","CVE-2025-8033","CVE-2025-8034","CVE-2025-8035"]

Threat ID: 6a3cc29e4853345fc16d4152

Added to database: 06/25/2026, 05:54:38 UTC

Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 06:01:55 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:52 UTC

Views: 16

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