The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 91.8.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1789 advisory.

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    NSSToken objects were referenced via direct points, and could have been accessed in an unsafe way on     different threads, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-1097)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    After a VR Process is destroyed, a reference to it may have been retained and used, leading to a use-     after-free and potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-1196)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    When importing a revoked key that specified key compromise as the revocation reason, Thunderbird did not     update the existing copy of the key that was not yet revoked, and the existing key was kept as non-     revoked. Revocation statements that used another revocation reason, or that didn't specify a revocation     reason, were unaffected. (CVE-2022-1197)

    regex is an implementation of regular expressions for the Rust language. The regex crate features built-in     mitigations to prevent denial of service attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched     by trusted regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent attacks. This     guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's API. Unfortunately a bug was discovered in     the mitigations designed to prevent untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing,     and it's possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible to perform denial     of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to services accepting user-controlled, untrusted     regexes. All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this issue. The fix is     include starting from regex 1.5.5. All users accepting user-controlled regexes are recommended to upgrade     immediately to the latest version of the regex crate. Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic     regexes, as there are practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this vulnerability.
    Because of this, it us not recommend to deny known problematic regexes. (CVE-2022-24713)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    If a compromised content process sent an unexpected number of WebAuthN Extensions in a Register command to     the parent process, an out of bounds write would have occurred leading to memory corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-28281)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    By using a link with rel=localization a use-after-free could have been triggered by destroying an object     during JavaScript execution and then referencing the object through a freed pointer, leading to a     potential exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-28282)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    When generating the assembly code for MLoadTypedArrayElementHole, an incorrect AliasSet was used. In     conjunction with another vulnerability this could have been used for an out of bounds memory read.
    (CVE-2022-28285)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Due to a layout change, iframe contents could have been rendered outside of its border. This could have     led to user confusion or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2022-28286)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Mozilla developers and community members Nika Layzell, Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 91.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence     of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-28289)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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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Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2022-1789)

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Version 1.7 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM 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: 202412120955
Version 1.6 Oct 31, 2023, 1:53 PM 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") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310311353
Version 1.5 Mar 21, 2023, 7:30 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202303211930
Version 1.4 Jan 3, 2023, 2:02 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" changed from "7.5" to "8.8") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2022-28289") Plugin Feed: 202301031402