Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.0, Thunderbird ESR 140.0, Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 141, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird 141, and Thunderbird 140.1.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-07-22T20:49:28.310Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-13T14:27:10.161Z

Source :

mozilla
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-8040 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Mozilla
  • Firefox
  • Firefox Esr
  • Thunderbird
  • Thunderbird Esr
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-8040.

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1975058%2C1975058%2C1975998%2C1975998 cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1975058%2C1975998 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8040 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8040 cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-56/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-59/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-61/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2025-63/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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