The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3793-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12376, CVE-2018-12377, CVE-2018-12378)

    It was discovered that if a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 58 and then later set a master     password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords would still be accessible. A local user could exploit     this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-12383)

    A crash was discovered in TransportSecurityInfo used for SSL, which could be triggered by data stored in     the local cache directory. An attacker could potentially exploit this in combination with another     vulnerability that allowed them to write data to the cache, to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12385)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3793-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118144

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Version 1.10 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.9 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906