RHEL 10 : firefox (RHSA-2025:14417)

high Nessus Plugin ID 254415

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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 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14417 advisory.

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

Security Fix(es):

* firefox: thunderbird: Denial-of-service due to out-of-memory in the Graphics: WebRender component (CVE-2025-9182)

* thunderbird: firefox: Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component (CVE-2025-9179)

* thunderbird: firefox: Same-origin policy bypass in the Graphics: Canvas2D component (CVE-2025-9180)

* thunderbird: firefox: Uninitialized memory in the JavaScript Engine component (CVE-2025-9181)

* thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Thunderbird ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird ESR 140.2, Firefox 142 and Thunderbird 142 (CVE-2025-9185)

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-2025:14417.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 254415

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-14417.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/25/2025

Updated: 8/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9185

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, 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: 8/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Reference Information

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

CWE: 119, 200, 400, 665

RHSA: 2025:14417

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