# CVE-2025-9185: 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

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-19 · Updated: 2026-04-13

## Affected

- Mozilla Firefox: version range not reported
- Mozilla Thunderbird: version range not reported

## Description

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. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 142, Firefox ESR 115.27, Firefox ESR 128.14, Firefox ESR 140.2, Thunderbird 142, Thunderbird 128.14, and Thunderbird 140.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1970154%2C1976782%2C1977166
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-64/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-65/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-66/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-67/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-70/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-71/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-72/

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