Critical 9.8Published Oct 14, 2025

CVE-2025-11721Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox 144 and Thunderbird 144

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 5:00 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Memory safety bug present in Firefox 143 and Thunderbird 143. This bug showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 144 and Thunderbird 144.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mozilla
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Apr 13, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox mozilla:firefox (from the name)	from 144 not affected	CNA record
Mozilla Thunderbird mozilla:thunderbird (from the name)	from 144 not affected	CNA record
mozilla firefox mozilla:firefox	from 143.0 before 144.0	NVD
mozilla thunderbird mozilla:thunderbird	from 143.0 before 144.0	NVD

References

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1986816	issue-tracking, permissions-required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-81/	vendor-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-84/	vendor-advisory

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