Mozilla Foundation Unsupported Application Detection

critical Nessus Plugin ID 40362

Synopsis

The remote host contains one or more unsupported applications from the Mozilla Foundation.

Description

According to its version, there is at least one unsupported Mozilla application (Firefox, Thunderbird, and/or SeaMonkey) installed on the remote host. This version of the software is no longer actively maintained.

Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade to a version that is currently supported.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 40362

File Name: mozilla_org_unsupported.nasl

Version: 1.104

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/24/2009

Updated: 11/4/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: Tenable score for unsupported products.

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS Score Source: manual

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox, cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr, cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird, cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey

Reference Information

IAVA: 0001-A-0565