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RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2025:21059)

🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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RHEL 9 hosts have Firefox affected by multiple CVEs per RHSA-2025-21059 advisory.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:21059. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(275163);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/12");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2025-11708",
    "CVE-2025-11709",
    "CVE-2025-11710",
    "CVE-2025-11711",
    "CVE-2025-11712",
    "CVE-2025-11714",
    "CVE-2025-11715"
  );
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2025:21059");

  script_name(english:"RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2025:21059)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as
referenced in the RHSA-2025:21059 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and
    portability.

    Security Fix(es):

    * thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-11714)

    * thunderbird: firefox: Out of bounds read/write in a privileged process triggered by WebGL textures
    (CVE-2025-11709)

    * thunderbird: firefox: Cross-process information leaked due to malicious IPC messages (CVE-2025-11710)

    * thunderbird: firefox: Use-after-free in MediaTrackGraphImpl::GetInstance() (CVE-2025-11708)

    * thunderbird: firefox: An OBJECT tag type attribute overrode browser behavior on web resources without a
    content-type (CVE-2025-11712)

    * thunderbird: firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 140.4, Thunderbird ESR 140.4, Firefox 144
    and Thunderbird 144 (CVE-2025-11715)

    * thunderbird: firefox: Some non-writable Object properties could be modified (CVE-2025-11711)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and
    other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403763");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403765");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403768");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403769");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403770");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403774");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403776");
  # https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_21059.json
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4dea777a");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21059");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:21059.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-11715");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-11710");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(119, 125, 284, 416, 436, 497);
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"Important");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/10/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/11/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/11/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-x11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm2.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'eq', os_version: os_version, rhel_version: '9.4')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 9.4', 'Red Hat ' + os_version);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '9',
    'sp': '4',
    'repo_relative_urls': [
      'content/aus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/debug',
      'content/aus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/os',
      'content/aus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/debug',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/os',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/debug',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/os',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/debug',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/os',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/debug',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/os',
      'content/e4s/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/debug',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/os',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/aarch64/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/debug',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/os',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/ppc64le/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/debug',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/os',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/s390x/appstream/source/SRPMS',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/debug',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/os',
      'content/eus/rhel9/9.4/x86_64/appstream/source/SRPMS'
    ],
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'firefox-140.4.0-3.el9_4', 'sp':'4', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
      {'reference':'firefox-x11-140.4.0-3.el9_4', 'sp':'4', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var applicable_repo_urls = rhel_determine_applicable_repository_urls(constraints:constraints);
if(applicable_repo_urls == RHEL_REPOS_NO_OVERLAP_MESSAGE) exit(0, RHEL_REPO_NOT_ENABLED);

var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');

var flag = 0;
var repo_relative_urls;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
    if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
  }

  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['repo_relative_urls'])) repo_relative_urls = constraint['repo_relative_urls'];

  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    reference = NULL;
    sp = NULL;
    _cpu = NULL;
    el_string = NULL;
    rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    epoch = NULL;
    allowmaj = NULL;
    exists_check = NULL;
    cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        rhel_decide_repo_relative_url_check(required_repo_url_list:repo_relative_urls) &&
        (applicable_repo_urls || (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check))) &&
        rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var subscription_caveat = '\n' +
    'NOTE: This vulnerability check contains fixes that apply to\n' +
    'packages only available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux\n' +
    'Extended Update Support repository.\n' +
    'Access to this repository requires a paid RHEL subscription.\n';
  var extra = NULL;
  if (isnull(applicable_repo_urls) || !applicable_repo_urls) extra = subscription_caveat + rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_repo_caveat();
  else extra = subscription_caveat + rpm_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'firefox / firefox-x11');
}

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12 Nov 2025 00:00Current
7.2High risk
Vulners AI Score7.2
CVSS 3.19.8
EPSS0.00465
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