RHEL 9 : thunderbird (RHSA-2025:10160)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 241142

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10160 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

* thunderbird: Unsolicited File Download, Disk Space Exhaustion, and Credential Leakage via mailbox:/// Links (CVE-2025-5986)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL thunderbird package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:10160.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 241142

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-10160.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/2/2025

Updated: 7/11/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6424

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5986, CVE-2025-6424, CVE-2025-6425, CVE-2025-6429, CVE-2025-6430

CWE: 200, 400, 416, 706, 79

IAVA: 2025-A-0496

RHSA: 2025:10160

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