Use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 146.0.1.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2a33d28e-ddc0-11f0-902c-b42e991fc52e advisory.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000597 reports:
    Use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 146.0.1.
    (CVE-2025-14860)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 146.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-98 advisory.

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 146. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we     presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2025-14861)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 146.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-98 advisory.

  - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 146. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we     presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2025-14861)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
279481	FreeBSD : Firefox -- Use-after-free (2a33d28e-ddc0-11f0-902c-b42e991fc52e)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	critical
279423	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-14860	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical
279186	Mozilla Firefox < 146.0.1	Nessus	Windows	Local	critical
279149	Mozilla Firefox < 146.0.1	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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