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Mozilla Firefox ESR < 140.2

high Nessus Plugin ID 252314

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 140.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-67 advisory.

 - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 115.26, Firefox ESR 128.13, Thunderbird ESR 128.13, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-9185)

 - 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.
 (CVE-2025-9179)

 - 'Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component.' (CVE-2025-9180)

 - Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component. (CVE-2025-9181)

 - 'Denial-of-service due to out-of-memory in the Graphics: WebRender component.' (CVE-2025-9182)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 140.2 or later.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 252314

File Name: macos_firefox_140_2_esr.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9185

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9179, CVE-2025-9180, CVE-2025-9181, CVE-2025-9182, CVE-2025-9183, CVE-2025-9184, CVE-2025-9185