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Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

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High
Published: 05/29/2025 (05/29/2025, 07:17:14 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

A security update for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird addresses multiple vulnerabilities including clickjacking that could leak saved payment card details, potential local code execution via the 'Copy as cURL' command, memory safety bugs, cross-origin resource status leakage, and improper isolation of script execution error handling from web content. These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 variants and related platforms. The update is rated as important by Red Hat Product Security and fixes these issues to improve browser security.

Affected software

redhat/firefox
pkg:rpm/redhat/firefox
Affected versions
>=9.0.0

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AILast updated: 06/27/2026, 22:34:13 UTC

Technical Analysis

This advisory covers multiple security vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The issues include a clickjacking vulnerability (CVE-2025-5267) that could lead to leaking saved payment card details, potential local code execution through the 'Copy as cURL' command (CVE-2025-5264), several memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-5268, CVE-2025-5269), leakage of cross-origin resource status via script element events (CVE-2025-5266), and improper isolation of error handling for script execution from web content (CVE-2025-5263). Red Hat has released updated Firefox packages to address these vulnerabilities. The advisory references multiple CVEs and provides updated packages for various Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 architectures and update streams.

Potential Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information such as saved payment card details, local code execution on affected systems, and potential compromise of browser security through memory safety issues and cross-origin information leakage. These impacts could undermine user privacy and system integrity on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 systems running Firefox or Thunderbird.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated Firefox packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its variants that address these vulnerabilities. Users and administrators should apply the available security updates as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:8293 to remediate these issues. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations are specified beyond applying the official update.

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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-2025:8293
Cve Count
7
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-5264","CVE-2025-5266","CVE-2025-5267","CVE-2025-5268","CVE-2025-5269","CVE-2025-5283"]

Threat ID: 6a4049e527e9c79719834279

Added to database: 06/27/2026, 22:08:37 UTC

Last enriched: 06/27/2026, 22:34:13 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC

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