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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2025:8308)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 237454
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8308 advisory.Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.
Security Fix(es):
* firefox: thunderbird: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to leaking saved payment card details (CVE-2025-5267)
* firefox: thunderbird: Potential local code execution in ?Copy as cURL? command (CVE-2025-5264)
* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-5268)
* firefox: thunderbird: Script element events leaked cross-origin resource status (CVE-2025-5266)
* firefox: thunderbird: Error handling for script execution was incorrectly isolated from web content (CVE-2025-5263)
* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bug (CVE-2025-5269)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:8308.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368750
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368751
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368752
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368755
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368756
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368757
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 237454
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-8308.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/29/2025
Updated: 6/5/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5269
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-5263, CVE-2025-5264, CVE-2025-5266, CVE-2025-5267, CVE-2025-5268, CVE-2025-5269