CVE-2025-8044 | Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 14… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140. 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 141 and Thunderbird 141.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-8044
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Reserved: 2025-07-22 10:14 UTC
Published: 2025-07-22 20:49 UTC
Last updated: 2026-04-13 14:30 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-119
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds…
Vendor / Product: Mozilla / Firefox
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

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Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (2)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	—	141 ≤ *
Mozilla	Thunderbird	—	141 ≤ *

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-119	adp	CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (3)

Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 141 and Thunderbird 141 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1933572%2C1971116
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-56/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-61/