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Mozilla Firefox < 137.0.2

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234434

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 137.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2025-25 advisory.

 - A race condition existed in nsHttpTransaction that could have been exploited to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to an exploitable condition. (CVE-2025-3608)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 137.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-25/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234434

File Name: macos_firefox_137_0_2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Firefox

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3608

IAVA: 2025-A-0280-S