Mozilla has released three security advisories to address two critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR.
- CVE-2025-4918 is an ‘out-of-bounds access when resolving promise objects’ vulnerability. If exploited, could allow an attacker to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript Promise object.
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