Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.4

critical Nessus Plugin ID 275618

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Synopsis

A mail client installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-23 advisory.

- Mozilla developers and community members Christoph Diehl, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Randell Jesup, Tom Ritter, Tyson Smith, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 55, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Thunderbird 52.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7810)

- A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-7824)

- A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the Fetch API when the worker or the associated window are freed when still in use, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-7793)

- A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating arrays of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) elements within containers through the DOM. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
(CVE-2017-7818)

- A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in design mode when image objects are resized if objects referenced during the resizing have been freed from memory. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-7819)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 52.4 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 275618

File Name: mozilla_thunderbird_52_4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/18/2025

Updated: 11/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2017-7810

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7824

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Thunderbird

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7793, CVE-2017-7805, CVE-2017-7810, CVE-2017-7814, CVE-2017-7818, CVE-2017-7819, CVE-2017-7823, CVE-2017-7824, CVE-2017-7825

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