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CVE-2025-8039 json

Search terms persisted in URL bar

published last yr. modified last mo. also EUVD-2025-22363

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In some cases search terms persisted in the URL bar even after navigating away from the search page. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 141, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird 141, and Thunderbird 140.1.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 140.1
  • mozilla firefox_esr 140.1
  • mozilla thunderbird 140.1
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 140.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:140.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8039

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP6, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 +2 more 140.1.0-150200.8.230.1
  • MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 140-150200.9.21.1
  • pipewire SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 0.3.6-150200.3.11.1
  • pipewire SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 0.3.24-150300.4.8.1
  • pipewire SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 0.3.49-150400.3.7.1
  • pipewire SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS +1 more 0.3.64-150500.3.7.2
  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 140.1.0-150200.152.193.1
  • xdg-desktop-portal SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 1.8.0-150200.5.8.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02546-1SUSE-SU-2025:02531-1SUSE-SU-2025:02529-1

  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 141.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 140.1.0-1.1
  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 140.1.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15386-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15383-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15371-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-8039 updated cvss 3.4

firefox: Search terms persisted in URL bar

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 firefox, thunderbird, firefox-flatpak, thunderbird-flatpak
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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