The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5740 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5740-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     August 07, 2024                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : firefox-esr     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-7519 CVE-2024-7521 CVE-2024-7522 CVE-2024-7524                      CVE-2024-7525 CVE-2024-7526 CVE-2024-7527 CVE-2024-7529                      CVE-2024-7531

    Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web     browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary     code, the bypass of sandbox restrictions or an information leak.

    For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed     in version 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages.

    For the detailed security status of firefox-esr please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/firefox-esr

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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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Debian dsa-5740 : firefox-esr - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205139

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Aug 13, 2024, 9:21 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 10.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 9.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-7524" to "CVE-2024-7527") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2024-7527, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-7521" to "CVE-2024-7519") Plugin Feed: 202408130921
Version 1.1 Aug 7, 2024, 4:26 PM New Plugin Feed: 202408071626