New Firefox Warning—Emergency Update Fixes Two Exploited Flaws
Now, popular Chrome alternative, Mozilla's Firefox has issued an emergency fix for two security vulnerabilities already used in real-life attacks.
Firefox's owner Mozilla doesn't provide much detail about what's patched in its recent updates, for Firefox 138.0.4 Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 128.10.1 and Firefox ESR 115.23.1.
But the two Firefox flaws were demonstrated in real life at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Berlin. The Pwn2Own security competition has so far seen a number of impressive hacks including a successful compromise of Windows 11 — which was hacked three times in one day — and a VMware zero-day exploit, covered by my colleague Davey Winder.
The first Firefox issue is a critical out-of-bounds access flaw in Firefox's JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2025-4918 reported by Edouard Bochin and Tao Yan from Palo Alto Networks working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative. 'An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript Promise object,' Mozilla wrote in an advisory.
Tracked as CVE-2025-4919, the second Firefox vulnerability involves out-of-bounds access when optimizing linear sums. Also marked as having a critical impact, its discovery is credited to Manfred Paul working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative. 'An attacker was able to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript object by confusing array index sizes,' Firefox said.
The two Firefox issues are certainly serious, with each of the researchers awarded $50,000 at the Pwn2Own hackathon for their discovery. Both issues require little to no user interaction, with attackers able to execute code by tricking people into visiting malicious websites, so it makes sense to update as soon as you can.
This is especially important given that the information is already out there, meaning that the flaws could easily be exploited in additional attacks.
The update can be found via 'Help' on the Firefox Menu then selecting 'About Firefox.'
If you are using an Apple Mac device select 'About Firefox' from the Firefox menu.
So what are you waiting for? Update Firefox now to keep your browser safe.
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