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Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.5.1

high Nessus Plugin ID 168329

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2022-50 advisory.

 - If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attribute or an OBJECT tag with a DATA attribute, a network request to the referenced remote URL was performed, regardless of a configuration to block remote content.
 An image loaded from the POSTER attribute was shown in the composer window. These issues could have given an attacker additional capabilities when targetting releases that did not yet have a fix for CVE-2022-3033 which was reported around three months ago. (CVE-2022-45414)

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 102.5.1 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-50/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168329

File Name: macos_thunderbird_102_5_1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 12/1/2022

Updated: 1/26/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45414

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Thunderbird/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-45414

IAVA: 2022-A-0505-S