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Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

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High
Published: 06/05/2025 (06/05/2025, 12:26:23 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified and addressed in Mozilla Thunderbird as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. These include out-of-bounds memory access, clickjacking leading to potential leakage of saved payment card details, local code execution risks, memory safety bugs, and improper isolation of script execution errors from web content. The update fixes these issues to improve the security posture of Thunderbird on affected Red Hat platforms.

Affected software

redhat/thunderbird
pkg:rpm/redhat/thunderbird
Affected versions
=128.11.0-1.el9_0

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AILast updated: 06/27/2026, 22:31:02 UTC

Technical Analysis

Red Hat Product Security released an important security advisory (RHSA-2025:8598) for Mozilla Thunderbird addressing nine CVEs related to memory safety and security issues. The vulnerabilities include out-of-bounds access when resolving Promise objects (CVE-2025-4918) and optimizing linear sums (CVE-2025-4919), a clickjacking vulnerability that could leak saved payment card details (CVE-2025-5267), potential local code execution in the 'Copy as cURL' command (CVE-2025-5264), multiple memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-5268, CVE-2025-5269), leakage of cross-origin resource status via script element events (CVE-2025-5266), and incorrect isolation of error handling for script execution from web content (CVE-2025-5263). These issues affect Thunderbird as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 on multiple architectures including x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, and s390x. The advisory provides updated Thunderbird packages to remediate these vulnerabilities.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities collectively could lead to memory corruption, unauthorized information disclosure (such as saved payment card details), and potential local code execution within the Thunderbird client. These issues pose a high security risk to users by potentially allowing attackers to exploit memory safety bugs and bypass security boundaries within the application.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated Thunderbird packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions that address these vulnerabilities. Users and administrators should apply the security update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:8598 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated 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-2025:8598
Cve Count
9
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-4919","CVE-2025-5263","CVE-2025-5264","CVE-2025-5266","CVE-2025-5267","CVE-2025-5268","CVE-2025-5269","CVE-2025-5283"]

Threat ID: 6a4049e327e9c797198336a3

Added to database: 06/27/2026, 22:08:35 UTC

Last enriched: 06/27/2026, 22:31:02 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:50 UTC

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