CVE-2025-9179
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.
Published:Aug 19, 2025
Last Modified:Apr 20, 2026
EPS:Aug 19, 2025
EPSS Score:0.00117
CVSS Score:9.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Firefox
Mozilla
Firefox
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Firefox Esr
Mozilla
Firefox Esr
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Thunderbird
Mozilla
Thunderbird
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
