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Mozilla Thunderbird < 68.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 128971

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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 68.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2019-30 advisory, including the following:

 - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while manipulating video elements if the body is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11746)

 - Some HTML elements, such as <title> and <textarea>, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a literal closing tag to .innerHTML on these elements, and subsequent content after that will be parsed as if it were outside the tag.
 This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements. (CVE-2019-11744)

 - It is possible to delete an IndexedDB key value and subsequently try to extract it during conversion. This results in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2019-11752)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 68.1 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-30/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128971

File Name: macos_thunderbird_68_1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 9/18/2019

Updated: 11/8/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Thunderbird/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11739, CVE-2019-11740, CVE-2019-11742, CVE-2019-11743, CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11752

MFSA: 2019-30