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Mozilla Thunderbird < 60.8

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126703

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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 60.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-23 advisory.

 - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in HTTP/2 when a cached HTTP/2 stream is closed while still in use, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11713)

 - As part of his winning Pwn2Own entry, Niklas Baumstark demonstrated a sandbox escape by installing a malicious language pack and then opening a browser feature that used the compromised translation.
 (CVE-2019-9811)

 - When an inner window is reused, it does not consider the use of <code>document.domain</code> for cross- origin protections. If pages on different subdomains ever cooperatively use <code>document.domain</code>, then either page can abuse this to inject script into arbitrary pages on the other subdomain, even those that did not use <code>document.domain</code> to relax their origin security. (CVE-2019-11711)

 - POST requests made by NPAPI plugins, such as Flash, that receive a status 308 redirect response can bypass CORS requirements. This can allow an attacker to perform Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
 (CVE-2019-11712)

 - Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault due values being improperly sanitized before being copied into memory and used. (CVE-2019-11729)

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 60.8 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126703

File Name: macos_thunderbird_60_8.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 7/16/2019

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11713

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Thunderbird

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11729, CVE-2019-11730, CVE-2019-9811

MFSA: 2019-23