The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6610-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain     sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-0741, CVE-2024-0742,     CVE-2024-0743, CVE-2024-0744, CVE-2024-0745, CVE-2024-0747, CVE-2024-0748, CVE-2024-0749, CVE-2024-0750,     CVE-2024-0751, CVE-2024-0753, CVE-2024-0754, CVE-2024-0755)

    Cornel Ionce discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when opening the print preview dialog.
    An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0746)

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 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-6610-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189735

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Version 1.5 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 1.4 Apr 19, 2024, 11:43 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202404191143
Version 1.3 Mar 22, 2024, 12:02 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202403221202
Version 1.2 Feb 23, 2024, 12:38 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202402231238
Version 1.1 Jan 30, 2024, 3:19 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H". "CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) Plugin Feed: 202401301519
Version 1.0 Jan 29, 2024, 4:10 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401291610