CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-4082 — Mozilla Firefox security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 5.9
Modification of specific WebGL shader attributes could trigger an out-of-bounds read, which, when chained with other vulnerabilities, could be used to escalate privileges. *This bug only affects Thunderbird for macOS. Other versions of Thunderbird are unaffected.*. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, Firefox ESR 115.23, Thunderbird 138, and Thunderbird 128.10.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.9 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-04-29
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- browser
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Affected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / thunderbird
Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
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