CVE-2025-9179criticalCWE-119

Sandbox escape due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: GMP component

28Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.6%

exploitation probability

0.6%top 55% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

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.

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

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Thunderbird

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979527 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00016.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00018.html 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/