When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.3.

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 102.7.1-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1951 advisory.

    2025-01-30: CVE-2022-31744 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-30: CVE-2022-3155 was added to this advisory.

    2024-05-23: CVE-2023-0430 was added to this advisory.

    An out of date graphics library (Angle) likely contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be     exploited. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9 and Firefox ESR < 78.9. (CVE-2021-4127)

    Mozilla developers and community members Julian Hector, Randell Jesup, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith,     Christian Holler, and Masayuki Nakano reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 94. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 95, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and     Thunderbird < 91.4.0. (CVE-2021-4129)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of if an     attacker corrupted an object prototype, they could set undesired attributes on a JavaScript object,     leading to privileged code execution. (CVE-2022-2200)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that Thunderbird     did not set the attribute com.apple.quarantine on the received file when saving or opening an email     attachment on macOS. If the received file was an application and the user attempted to open it, the     application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm. (CVE-2022-3155)

    An attacker could have injected CSS into stylesheets accessible via internal URIs, such as resource:, and     in doing so bypass a page's Content Security Policy. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.11,     Thunderbird < 102, Thunderbird < 91.11, and Firefox < 101. (CVE-2022-31744)

    An out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding H264 video. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-3266)

    An iframe that was not permitted to run scripts could do so if the user clicked on a     <code>javascript:</code> link. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11, Thunderbird     < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11. (CVE-2022-34468)

    Session history navigations may have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11, Thunderbird < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11.
    (CVE-2022-34470)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that if a PAC     URL was set and the server that hosts the PAC was not reachable, OCSP requests are blocked, resulting in     incorrect error pages being shown. (CVE-2022-34472)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of a malicious     website that creates a popup that could have resized the popup to overlay the address bar with its own     content, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2022-34479)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue within the     `nsTArray_Impl::ReplaceElementsAt()` function, where an integer overflow could occur when the number of     elements to replace was too large for the container. (CVE-2022-34481)

    The Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported potential vulnerabilities present in Thunderbird 91.10. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11,     Thunderbird < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11. (CVE-2022-34484)

    A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was identified in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR. This     vulnerability occurs when the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local     variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). An attacker could cause of denial-of-service style crash     by exploiting this vulnerability. To exploit this vulnerability, a remote, unauthenticated attacker would     need to convince a user to visit a specially crafted website or open a malicious document.
    (CVE-2022-40961)

    If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email     contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attribute or an OBJECT tag with a DATA attribute, a network     request to the referenced remote URL was performed, regardless of a configuration to block remote content.
    An image loaded from the POSTER attribute was shown in the composer window. These issues could have given     an attacker additional capabilities when targetting releases that did not yet have a fix for CVE-2022-3033     which was reported around three months ago. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.5.1.
    (CVE-2022-45414)

    RESERVEDNOTE: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/#CVE-2022-46871     (CVE-2022-46871)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An attacker who compromised a content     process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC     messages.

    *This bug only affects Firefox for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.* (CVE-2022-46872)

    A file with a long filename could have had its filename truncated to remove the valid extension, leaving a     malicious extension in its place. This could potentially led to user confusion and the execution of     malicious code.<br/>*Note*: This issue was originally included in the advisories for Thunderbird 102.6,     but a patch (specific to Thunderbird) was omitted, resulting in it actually being fixed in Thunderbird     102.6.1. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Thunderbird < 102.6.1, Thunderbird < 102.6, and Firefox     ESR < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46874)

    By confusing the browser, the fullscreen notification could have been delayed or suppressed, resulting in     potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108. (CVE-2022-46877)

    Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory     safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.5. 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. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46878)

    A missing check related to tex units could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable     crash.<br />*Note*: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after we better understood the impact     of the issue. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 105. This vulnerability affects     Firefox ESR < 102.6, Firefox < 105, and Thunderbird < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46880)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An optimization in WebGL was incorrect in     some cases, and could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-46881)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A use-after-free in WebGL extensions     could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-46882)

    Certificate OCSP revocation status was not checked when verifying S/Mime signatures. Mail signed with a     revoked certificate would be displayed as having a valid signature. Thunderbird versions from 68 to     102.7.0 were affected by this bug. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.7.1. (CVE-2023-0430)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain     MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to     DataTransfer.setData. (CVE-2023-23598)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    When copying a network request from the developer tools panel as a curl command the output was not being     properly sanitized and could allow arbitrary commands to be hidden within. (CVE-2023-23599)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Navigations were being allowed when dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe into the same tab which     could lead to website spoofing attacks (CVE-2023-23601)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    A mishandled security check when creating a WebSocket in a WebWorker caused the Content Security Policy     connect-src header to be ignored. This could lead to connections to restricted origins from inside     WebWorkers. (CVE-2023-23602)

    Regular expressions used to filter out forbidden properties and values from style directives in calls to     console.log weren't accounting for external URLs. Data could then be potentially exfiltrated from the     browser. (CVE-2023-23603)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108 and     Firefox ESR 102.6. 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-2023-23605)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1 advisory.

  - When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute     com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted     to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.3. (CVE-2022-3155)

  - An out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding H264 video. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-3266)

  - Matrix Javascript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. Starting with version 17.1.0-rc.1,     improperly formed beacon events can disrupt or impede the matrix-js-sdk from functioning properly,     potentially impacting the consumer's ability to process data safely. Note that the matrix-js-sdk can     appear to be operating normally but be excluding or corrupting runtime data presented to the consumer.
    This is patched in matrix-js-sdk v19.7.0. Redacting applicable events, waiting for the sync processor to     store data, and restarting the client are possible workarounds. Alternatively, redacting the applicable     events and clearing all storage will fix the further perceived issues. Downgrading to an unaffected     version, noting that such a version may be subject to other vulnerabilities, will additionally resolve the     issue. (CVE-2022-39236)

  - Matrix Javascript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. Prior to version 19.7.0, an attacker     cooperating with a malicious homeserver can construct messages appearing to have come from another person.
    Such messages will be marked with a grey shield on some platforms, but this may be missing in others. This     attack is possible due to the matrix-js-sdk implementing a too permissive key forwarding strategy on the     receiving end. Starting with version 19.7.0, the default policy for accepting key forwards has been made     more strict in the matrix-js-sdk. matrix-js-sdk will now only accept forwarded keys in response to     previously issued requests and only from own, verified devices. The SDK now sets a `trusted` flag on the     decrypted message upon decryption, based on whether the key used to decrypt the message was received from     a trusted source. Clients need to ensure that messages decrypted with a key with `trusted = false` are     decorated appropriately, for example, by showing a warning for such messages. This attack requires     coordination between a malicious homeserver and an attacker, and those who trust your homeservers do not     need a workaround. (CVE-2022-39249)

  - Matrix JavaScript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server software development kit (SDK) for JavaScript. Prior to     version 19.7.0, an attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver could interfere with the verification     flow between two users, injecting its own cross-signing user identity in place of one of the users'     identities. This would lead to the other device trusting/verifying the user identity under the control of     the homeserver instead of the intended one. The vulnerability is a bug in the matrix-js-sdk, caused by     checking and signing user identities and devices in two separate steps, and inadequately fixing the keys     to be signed between those steps. Even though the attack is partly made possible due to the design     decision of treating cross-signing user identities as Matrix devices on the server side (with their device     ID set to the public part of the user identity key), no other examined implementations were vulnerable.
    Starting with version 19.7.0, the matrix-js-sdk has been modified to double check that the key signed is     the one that was verified instead of just referencing the key by ID. An additional check has been made to     report an error when one of the device ID matches a cross-signing key. As this attack requires     coordination between a malicious homeserver and an attacker, those who trust their homeservers do not need     a particular workaround. (CVE-2022-39250)

  - Matrix Javascript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. Prior to version 19.7.0, an attacker     cooperating with a malicious homeserver can construct messages that legitimately appear to have come from     another person, without any indication such as a grey shield. Additionally, a sophisticated attacker     cooperating with a malicious homeserver could employ this vulnerability to perform a targeted attack in     order to send fake to-device messages appearing to originate from another user. This can allow, for     example, to inject the key backup secret during a self-verification, to make a targeted device start using     a malicious key backup spoofed by the homeserver. These attacks are possible due to a protocol confusion     vulnerability that accepts to-device messages encrypted with Megolm instead of Olm. Starting with version     19.7.0, matrix-js-sdk has been modified to only accept Olm-encrypted to-device messages. Out of caution,     several other checks have been audited or added. This attack requires coordination between a malicious     home server and an attacker, so those who trust their home servers do not need a workaround.
    (CVE-2022-39251)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and     Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash.<br>*This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms.*. This vulnerability affects     Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40957)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105.
    (CVE-2022-40958)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR     < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird     < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and     Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-40962)

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

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202209-18 (Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute     com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted     to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm.
    (CVE-2022-3155)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead.  (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash. This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms.  (CVE-2022-40957)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks.  (CVE-2022-40958)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments.  (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash.  (CVE-2022-40960)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. 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-2022-40962)

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

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 102.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-42 advisory.

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. (CVE-2022-40958)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead. (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash. This bug only affects Thunderbird on ARM64 platforms. (CVE-2022-40957)

  - When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute     com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted     to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm.
    (CVE-2022-3155)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Jeff Muizelaar, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and     the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.2. 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-2022-40962)

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

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-42 advisory.

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. (CVE-2022-40958)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead. (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash. This bug only affects Thunderbird on ARM64 platforms. (CVE-2022-40957)

  - When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute     com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted     to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm.
    (CVE-2022-3155)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Jeff Muizelaar, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and     the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.2. 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-2022-40962)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
171818	Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2023-1951)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
166692	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
165537	GLSA-202209-18 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
165300	Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.3	Nessus	Windows	high
165299	Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

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