CVE-2025-0238
Published: 07 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-0238 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-1570
Vulnerability details
Assuming a controlled failed memory allocation, an attacker could have caused a use-after-free, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 134, Firefox ESR 128.6, Firefox ESR 115.19, Thunderbird 134, and Thunderbird 128.6.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.