The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5972-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing, or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-25152, CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-28176)

    Lukas Bernhard discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory when invalidating JIT code while     following an iterator. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2023-25751)

    Luan Herrera discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage cross-origin iframe when dragging a URL.
    An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-5972-1)

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