The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5724-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) or other security restrictions, or execute arbitrary code.
    These issues only affect Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-3266,     CVE-2022-40956, CVE-2022-40957, CVE-2022-40958, CVE-2022-40959, CVE-2022-40960, CVE-2022-40962)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in the Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird. An attacker could     potentially exploit these in order to impersonate another user. These issues only affect Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-39236, CVE-2022-39249, CVE-2022-39250, CVE-2022-39251)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42927, CVE-2022-42928,     CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42932)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-5724-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167286

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Version 1.10 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
Version 1.9 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.8 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.8 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.7 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.7 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110148
Version 1.6 Jan 4, 2023, 6:22 PM Severity (changed from "High" to "Critical") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-39251" to "CVE-2022-42932") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from "7.8" to "10.0") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" changed from "7.5" to "8.8") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal score" set to "7.4") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal score" set to "7.7") Plugin Feed: 202301041822
Version 1.5 Nov 30, 2022, 4:19 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from "7.5" to "7.8") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-42932" to "CVE-2022-39251") Plugin Feed: 202211301619
Version 1.4 Nov 21, 2022, 6:04 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211211804
Version 1.3 Nov 14, 2022, 9:03 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211142103
Version 1.2 Nov 12, 2022, 1:44 AM New Plugin Feed: 202211120144