CVE-2025-9179

critical

Description

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 affects Firefox < 142, Firefox ESR < 115.27, Firefox ESR < 128.14, Firefox ESR < 140.2, Thunderbird < 142, Thunderbird < 128.14, and Thunderbird < 140.2.

References

https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerabilities-patched-in-chrome-firefox/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-72/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-71/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-70/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-67/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-66/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-65/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-64/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979527

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-19

Updated: 2025-08-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024