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Mozilla Thunderbird < 78.10.2

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149529

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Synopsis

A mail client installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.10.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-22 advisory.

 - If a MIME encoded email contains an OpenPGP inline signed or encrypted message part, but also contains an additional unprotected part, Thunderbird did not indicate that only parts of the message are protected.
 (CVE-2021-29957)

 - OpenPGP secret keys that were imported using Thunderbird version 78.8.1 up to version 78.10.1 were stored unencrypted on the user's local disk. The master password protection was inactive for those keys. Version 78.10.2 will restore the protection mechanism for newly imported keys, and will automatically protect keys that had been imported using affected Thunderbird versions. (CVE-2021-29956)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 78.10.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-22/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149529

File Name: macos_thunderbird_78_10_2.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 5/17/2021

Updated: 1/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Thunderbird/Installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29956, CVE-2021-29957

IAVA: 2021-A-0246-S