The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-38 advisory.

  - If a Thunderbird user replied to a crafted HTML email containing a <code>meta</code> tag, with the     <code>meta</code> tag having the <code>http-equiv=refresh</code> attribute, and the content attribute     specifying an URL, then Thunderbird started a network request to that URL, regardless of the configuration     to block remote content. In combination with certain other HTML elements and attributes in the email, it     was possible to execute JavaScript code included in the message in the context of the message compose     document.  The JavaScript code was able to perform actions including, but probably not limited to, read     and modify the contents of the message compose document, including the quoted original message, which     could potentially contain the decrypted plaintext of encrypted data  in the crafted email. The contents     could then be transmitted to the network, either to the URL specified in the META refresh tag, or to a     different URL, as the JavaScript code could modify the URL specified in the document. This bug doesn't     affect users who have changed the default Message Body display setting to 'simple html' or 'plain text'.
    (CVE-2022-3033)

  - When receiving an HTML email that contained an <code>iframe</code> element, which used a     <code>srcdoc</code> attribute to define the inner HTML document, remote objects specified in the nested     document, for example images or videos, were not blocked. Rather, the network was accessed, the objects     were loaded and displayed. (CVE-2022-3032)

  - When receiving an HTML email that specified to load an <code>iframe</code> element from a remote location,     a request to the remote document was sent. However, Thunderbird didn't display the document.
    (CVE-2022-3034)

  - Thunderbird users who use the Matrix chat protocol were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack. An     adversary sharing a room with a user had the ability to carry out an attack against affected clients,     making it not show all of a user's rooms or spaces and/or causing minor temporary corruption.
    (CVE-2022-36059)

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

Detections

Analytics

Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.2.1

high Nessus Plugin ID 164540

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.5 Jan 4, 2023, 6:22 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from "5.8" to "9.4") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" changed from "6.1" to "8.1") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal score" set to "7.0") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal score" set to "7.1") Severity (changed from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202301041822
Version 1.4 Sep 27, 2022, 5:22 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202209271722