RHEL 10 : firefox (RHSA-2025:18154)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 270587

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-2025:18154 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-11714)

* thunderbird: firefox: Out of bounds read/write in a privileged process triggered by WebGL textures (CVE-2025-11709)

* thunderbird: firefox: Cross-process information leaked due to malicious IPC messages (CVE-2025-11710)

* thunderbird: firefox: Use-after-free in MediaTrackGraphImpl::GetInstance() (CVE-2025-11708)

* thunderbird: firefox: An OBJECT tag type attribute overrode browser behavior on web resources without a content-type (CVE-2025-11712)

* thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.4, Thunderbird ESR 140.4, Firefox 144 and Thunderbird 144 (CVE-2025-11715)

* thunderbird: firefox: Some non-writable Object properties could be modified (CVE-2025-11711)

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-2025:18154.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403763

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403765

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403768

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403769

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403770

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403774

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403776

http://www.nessus.org/u?10fecbc9

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18154

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 270587

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-18154.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2025-11715

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11710

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0

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: 10/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11708, CVE-2025-11709, CVE-2025-11710, CVE-2025-11711, CVE-2025-11712, CVE-2025-11714, CVE-2025-11715

CWE: 119, 125, 284, 416, 436, 497

RHSA: 2025:18154