CVE-2025-0238mediumCWE-416

CVE-2025-0238: medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

Use-after-free when breaking lines in text

Published 07 Jan 2025 · Updated 13 Apr 2026

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.8%

Assuming a controlled failed memory allocation, an attacker could have caused a use-after-free, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 134, Firefox ESR 128.6, Firefox ESR 115.19, Thunderbird 134, and Thunderbird 128.6.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Thunderbird

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1915535 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00004.html https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-01/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-02/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-03/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-04/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-05/