RockyLinux 9 : firefox (RLSA-2025:7428)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 243157

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:7428 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Privilege escalation in Firefox Updater (CVE-2025-2817)

* firefox: thunderbird: Unsafe attribute access during XPath parsing (CVE-2025-4087)

* firefox: thunderbird: Process isolation bypass using javascript: URI links in cross-origin frames (CVE-2025-4083)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10 (CVE-2025-4091)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox ESR 128.10 and Thunderbird 128.10 (CVE-2025-4093)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 243157

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-7428.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4093

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4083

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-x11, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:firefox-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2817, CVE-2025-4083, CVE-2025-4087, CVE-2025-4091, CVE-2025-4093

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