The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4064-1 advisory.

    A sandbox escape was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to installing a malicious     language pack, an attacker could exploit this to gain additional privileges. (CVE-2019-9811)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, bypass same origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, spoof origin     attributes, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713,     CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717)

    It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled importing certain curve25519 private keys. An attacker     could exploit this issue to cause Thunderbird to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11719)

    It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain p256-ECDH public keys. An attacker could possibly     exploit this issue to cause Thunderbird to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-11729)

    It was discovered that Thunderbird treats all files in a directory as same origin. If a user were tricked     in to downloading a specially crafted HTML file, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain     sensitive information from local files. (CVE-2019-11730)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4064-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126816

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.9 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.8 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-11713") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906