CVE-2025-8044

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 141 and Thunderbird < 141.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1933572%2C1971116	Broken Link
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-56/	Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-61/	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::-:::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-07-22 21:15

Updated : 2025-07-28 14:09

NVD link : CVE-2025-8044

Mitre link : CVE-2025-8044

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-8044

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox
thunderbird

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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