Vulnerability in Firefox (CVE-2025-13012)

Summary

Vulnerability in Firefox (CVE-2025-13012). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Race condition in the Graphics component. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 145, Firefox ESR < 140.5, Firefox ESR < 115.30, Thunderbird < 145, and Thunderbird < 140.5.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-13012 has been found in Firefox.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Firefox CVE-2025-13012" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-13012 (Firefox)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Firefox.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Firefox.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Firefox' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Firefox' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Firefox を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-13012 firefox-esr Fixed in: 140.5.0esr-1~deb11u1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13012 mozjs52

References

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report bugzilla.mozilla.org