The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8729 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and     portability.

    Security Fix(es):

    * firefox: thunderbird: History interface could have been used to cause a Denial of Service condition in     the browser (CVE-2024-10464)

    * firefox: thunderbird: XSS due to Content-Disposition being ignored in multipart/x-mixed-replace response     (CVE-2024-10461)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Permission leak via embed or object elements (CVE-2024-10458)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in layout with accessibility (CVE-2024-10459)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 132, Thunderbird 132, Firefox ESR 128.4, and     Thunderbird 128.4 (CVE-2024-10467)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Clipboard paste button persisted across tabs (CVE-2024-10465)

    * firefox: DOM push subscription message could hang Firefox (CVE-2024-10466)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Cross origin video frame leak (CVE-2024-10463)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Origin of permission prompt could be spoofed by long URL (CVE-2024-10462)

    * firefox: thunderbird: Confusing display of origin for external protocol handler prompt (CVE-2024-10460)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2024:8729)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210032

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM 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 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-10458" to "CVE-2024-10467") Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.1 Nov 1, 2024, 3:44 PM New Plugin Feed: 202411011544