The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0138 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * firefox: Use-after-free when breaking lines in text (CVE-2025-0238)

    * firefox: Memory corruption when using JavaScript Text Segmentation (CVE-2025-0241)

    * firefox: Alt-Svc ALPN validation failure when redirected (CVE-2025-0239)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 134, Thunderbird 134, Firefox ESR 128.6, and     Thunderbird 128.6 (CVE-2025-0243)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 134, Thunderbird 134, Firefox ESR 115.19,     Firefox ESR 128.6, Thunderbird 115.19, and Thunderbird 128.6 (CVE-2025-0242)

    * firefox: WebChannel APIs susceptible to confused deputy attack (CVE-2025-0237)

    * firefox: Compartment mismatch when parsing JavaScript JSON module (CVE-2025-0240)

    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.

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RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2025:0138)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213618

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.4 Feb 6, 2025, 12:41 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202502061241
Version 1.3 Jan 31, 2025, 9:25 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.7) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2025-0241") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2025-0241, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202501310925
Version 1.2 Jan 17, 2025, 3:25 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202501171525
Version 1.1 Jan 9, 2025, 4:03 PM New Plugin Feed: 202501091603