Detections
Analytics

AlmaLinux 8 : firefox (ALSA-2025:8308)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237496

Language:

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:8308 advisory.

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected firefox package.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-8308.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8308

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237496

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-8308.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/29/2025

Updated: 5/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list

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

CWE: 1021, 116, 119, 829

RHSA: 2025:8308