AlmaLinux 9 : thunderbird (ALSA-2025:8607)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241264

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:8607 advisory.

* firefox: thunderbird: Out-of-bounds access when resolving Promise objects (CVE-2025-4918)
* firefox: thunderbird: Out-of-bounds access when optimizing linear sums (CVE-2025-4919)
* firefox: thunderbird: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to leaking saved payment card details (CVE-2025-5267)
* firefox: thunderbird: Potential local code execution in ?Copy as cURL? command (CVE-2025-5264)
* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-5268)
* firefox: thunderbird: Script element events leaked cross-origin resource status (CVE-2025-5266)
* firefox: thunderbird: Error handling for script execution was incorrectly isolated from web content (CVE-2025-5263)
* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bug (CVE-2025-5269)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-8607.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8607

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241264

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-8607.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4919

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4918, CVE-2025-4919, CVE-2025-5263, CVE-2025-5264, CVE-2025-5266, CVE-2025-5267, CVE-2025-5268, CVE-2025-5269, CVE-2025-5283

CWE: 1021, 116, 119, 415, 787, 829

IAVA: 2025-A-0381-S

RHSA: 2025:8607