CVE-2025-9179 (GCVE-0-2025-9179)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-19 20:33
Modified
2026-04-13 14:25
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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. 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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Unaffected: 115.27
Unaffected: 128.14
Unaffected: 140.2
Unaffected: 142
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   Mozilla Thunderbird Unaffected: 128.14
Unaffected: 140.2
Unaffected: 142
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