The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6214-1 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-2023-34414, CVE-2023-34416, CVE-2023-37201, CVE-2023-37202, CVE-2023-37207,     CVE-2023-37211)

    P Umar Farooq discovered that Thunderbird did not properly provide warning when opening Diagcab files. If     a user were tricked into opening a malicicous Diagcab file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2023-37208)

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 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-6214-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178210

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Version 1.3 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM 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: 202408281943
Version 1.2 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.1 Jul 27, 2023, 4:14 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202307271614
Version 1.0 Jul 13, 2023, 1:59 AM New Plugin Feed: 202307130159