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CVE-2025-9179 (GCVE-0-2025-9179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 20:33 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:25
VLAI
Title
Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component
Summary
An attacker was able to perform memory corruption in the GMP process which processes encrypted media. This process is also heavily sandboxed, but represents slightly different privileges from the content process. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-20 14:06 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 115.27 , ≤ 115.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 128.14 , ≤ 128.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 140.2 , ≤ 140.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 142 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 128.14 , ≤ 128.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 140.2 , ≤ 140.* (rpm)
Unaffected: 142 , ≤ * (rpm)
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Credits
Oskar
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