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Mozilla Thunderbird < 128.7

critical Nessus Plugin ID 214963

Synopsis

A mail client installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 128.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2025-10 advisory.

 - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 134, Thunderbird 134, Firefox ESR 115.19, Firefox ESR 128.6, Thunderbird 115.19, and Thunderbird 128.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2025-1016)

 - A double-free issue could have occurred in `secpkcs7decoderstartdecrypt()` when handling an error path.
 Under specific conditions, the same symmetric key could have been freed twice, potentially leading to memory corruption. (CVE-2024-11704)

 - An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via crafted XSLT data, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2025-1009)

 - An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via the Custom Highlight API, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2025-1010)

 - A bug in WebAssembly code generation could have lead to a crash. It may have been possible for an attacker to leverage this to achieve code execution. (CVE-2025-1011)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 128.7 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-10/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 214963

File Name: macos_thunderbird_128_7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 2/4/2025

Updated: 2/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1016

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11704

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Thunderbird/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11704, CVE-2025-0510, CVE-2025-1009, CVE-2025-1010, CVE-2025-1011, CVE-2025-1012, CVE-2025-1013, CVE-2025-1014, CVE-2025-1015, CVE-2025-1016, CVE-2025-1017

IAVA: 2024-A-0769-S