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-6405-1 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-2023-4057, CVE-2023-4577, CVE-2023-4578, CVE-2023-4583, CVE-2023-4585, CVE-2023-5169,     CVE-2023-5171, CVE-2023-5176)

    Andrew McCreight discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage during the worker lifecycle. An     attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3600)

    Harveer Singh discovered that Thunderbird did not store push notifications in private browsing mode in     encrypted form. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2023-4580)

    Clment Lecigne discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory when handling VP8 media     stream. An attacker-controlled VP8 media stream could lead to a heap buffer overflow in the content     process, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-5217)

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-6405-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 182432

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Version 1.4 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 1.3 Oct 13, 2023, 11:16 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310132316
Version 1.2 Oct 6, 2023, 10:25 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202310061025
Version 1.2 Oct 13, 2023, 9:18 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310132118
Version 1.1 Oct 4, 2023, 4:16 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 6.8 to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-5217, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202310041616
Version 1.0 Oct 3, 2023, 4:18 PM New Plugin Feed: 202310031618