The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3997-1 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, bypass same-origin protections, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-18511, CVE-2019-11691,     CVE-2019-11692, CVE-2019-11693, CVE-2019-9797, CVE-2019-9800, CVE-2019-9817, CVE-2019-9819, CVE-2019-9820)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5798, CVE-2019-7317)

    A type confusion bug was discovered with object groups and UnboxedObjects. If a user were tricked in to     opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context after enabling the UnboxedObjects feature, an     attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security checks. (CVE-2019-9816)

    It was discovered that history data could be exposed via drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from     bookmarks. If a user were tricked in to dragging a specially crafted hyperlink to a bookmark toolbar or     sidebar, and subsequently back in to the web content area, an attacker could potentially exploit this to     obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11698)

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 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3997-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 125545

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Version 1.10 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2018-18511,CVE-2019-11691,CVE-2019-11692,CVE-2019-11693,CVE-2019-11698,CVE-2019-5798,CVE-2019-7317,CVE-2019-9797,CVE-2019-9800,CVE-2019-9816,CVE-2019-9817,CVE-2019-9819,CVE-2019-9820") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-9820") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906
Version 1.6 Dec 6, 2022, 1:01 AM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212060101