The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-42 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence     of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-40962)

  - An out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding H264 video. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    (CVE-2022-3266)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. (CVE-2022-40958)

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

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 102.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-42 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence     of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-40962)

  - An out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding H264 video. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    (CVE-2022-3266)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments. (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-40960)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks. (CVE-2022-40958)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1 advisory.

    - Mozilla Thunderbird 102.4.0 (bsc#1204421)
      * changed: Thunderbird will automatically detect and repair OpenPGP key storage corruption caused by     using the profile import tool in Thunderbird 102
      * fixed: POP message download into a large folder (~13000 messages) caused Thunderbird to temporarily     freeze
      * fixed: Forwarding messages with special characters in Subject failed on Windows
      * fixed: Links for FileLink attachments were not added when attachment filename contained Unicode     characters
      * fixed: Address Book display pane continued to show contacts after deletion
      * fixed: Printing address book did not include all contact details
      * fixed: CardDAV contacts without a Name property did not save to Google Contacts
      * fixed: 'Publish Calendar' did not work
      * fixed: Calendar database storage improvements
      * fixed: Incorrectly handled error responses from CalDAV servers sometimes caused events to disappear     from calendar
      * fixed: Various visual and UX improvements
    - Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.3
      * new: Option added to show containing address book for a         contact when using `All Address Books` in vertical mode         (bmo#1778871)
      * changed: Thunderbird will try to use POP NTLM authentication         even if not advertised by server (bmo#1793349)
      * changed: Task List and Today Pane sidebars will no longer         load when not visible (bmo#1788549)
      * fixed: Sending a message while a recipient pill was being         modified did not save changes (bmo#1779785)
      * fixed: Nickname column was not available in horizontal view         of Address Book (bmo#1778000)
      * fixed: Multiline organization values were displayed across         two columns in horizontal view of Address Book (bmo#1777780)
      * fixed: Contact vCard fields with multiple values such as         Categories were truncated when saved (bmo#1792399)
      * fixed: ICS calendar files with a `FREEBUSY` property could         not be imported (bmo#1783441)
      * fixed: Thunderbird would hang if calendar event exceeded the         year 2035 (bmo#1789999)
    - Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.2
      * changed: Thunderbird will try to use POP CRAM-MD5         authentication even if not advertised by server (bmo#1789975)
      * fixed: Checking messages on POP3 accounts caused POP folder         to lock if mail server was slow or non-responsive         (bmo#1792451)
      * fixed: Newsgroups named with consecutive dots would not         appear when refreshing list of newsgroups (bmo#1787789)
      * fixed: Sending news articles containing lines starting with         dot were sometimes clipped (bmo#1787955)
      * fixed: CardDAV server sync silently failed if sync token         expired (bmo#1791183)
      * fixed: Contacts from LDAP on macOS address books were not         displayed (bmo#1791347)
      * fixed: Chat account input now accepts URIs for supported chat         protocols (bmo#1776706)
      * fixed: Chat ScreenName field was not migrated to new address         book (bmo#1789990)
      * fixed: Creating a New Event from the Today Pane used the         currently selected day from the main calendar instead of from         the Today Pane (bmo#1791203)
      * fixed: `New Event` button in Today Pane was incorrectly         disabled sometimes (bmo#1792058)
      * fixed: Event reminder windows did not close after being         dismissed or snoozed (bmo#1791228)
      * fixed: Improved performance of recurring event date         calculation (bmo#1787677)
      * fixed: Quarterly calendar events on the last day of the month         repeated one month early (bmo#1789362)
      * fixed: Thunderbird would hang if calendar event exceeded the         year 2035 (bmo#1789999)
      * fixed: Whitespace in calendar events was incorrectly handled         when upgrading from Thunderbird 91 to 102 (bmo#1790339)
      * fixed: Various visual and UX improvements (bmo#1755623,bmo#17         83903,bmo#1785851,bmo#1786434,bmo#1787286,bmo#1788151,bmo#178         9728,bmo#1790499)
    - Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.1
      * changed: Compose window encryption options now only appear         for encryption technologies that have already been configured         (bmo#1788988)
      * changed: Number of contacts in currently selected address         book now displayed at bottom of Address Book list column         (bmo#1745571)
      * fixed: Password prompt did not include server hostname for         POP servers (bmo#1786920)
      * fixed: `Edit Contact` was missing from Contacts sidebar         context menus (bmo#1771795)
      * fixed: Address Book contact lists cut off display of some         characters, the result being unreadable (bmo#1780909)
      * fixed: Menu items for dark-themed alarm dialog were invisible         on Windows 7 (bmo#1791738)
      * fixed: Various security fixes       MFSA 2022-43 (bsc#1204411)
      * CVE-2022-39249 (bmo#1791765)         Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an         impersonation attack by malicious server administrators
      * CVE-2022-39250 (bmo#1791765)         Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device         verification attack
      * CVE-2022-39251 (bmo#1791765)         Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an         impersonation attack
      * CVE-2022-39236 (bmo#1791765)         Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data         corruption issue
    - Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3
      * changed: Thunderbird will no longer attempt to import account         passwords when importing from another Thunderbird profile in         order to prevent profile corruption and permanent data loss.
        (bmo#1790605)
      * changed: Devtools performance profile will use Thunderbird         presets instead of Web Developer presets (bmo#1785954)
      * fixed: Thunderbird startup performance improvements         (bmo#1785967)
      * fixed: Saving email source and images failed         (bmo#1777323,bmo#1778804)
      * fixed: Error message was shown repeatedly when temporary disk         space was full (bmo#1788580)
      * fixed: Attaching OpenPGP keys without a set size to non-         encrypted messages briefly displayed a size of zero bytes         (bmo#1788952)
      * fixed: Global Search entry box initially contained         'undefined' (bmo#1780963)
      * fixed: Delete from POP Server mail filter rule intermittently         failed to trigger (bmo#1789418)
      * fixed: Connections to POP3 servers without UIDL support         failed (bmo#1789314)
      * fixed: Pop accounts with 'Fetch headers only' set downloaded         complete messages if server did not advertise TOP capability         (bmo#1789356)
      * fixed: 'File -> New -> Address Book Contact' from Compose         window did not work (bmo#1782418)
      * fixed: Attach 'My vCard' option in compose window was not         available (bmo#1787614)
      * fixed: Improved performance of matching a contact to an email         address (bmo#1782725)
      * fixed: Address book only recognized a contact's first two         email addresses (bmo#1777156)
      * fixed: Address book search and autocomplete failed if a         contact vCard could not be parsed (bmo#1789793)
      * fixed: Downloading NNTP messages for offline use failed         (bmo#1785773)
      * fixed: NNTP client became stuck when connecting to Public-         Inbox servers (bmo#1786203)
      * fixed: Various visual and UX improvements         (bmo#1782235,bmo#1787448,bmo#1788725,bmo#1790324)
      * fixed: Various security fixes
      * unresolved: No dedicated 'Department' field in address book         (bmo#1777780)       MFSA 2022-42 (bsc#1203477)
      * CVE-2022-3266 (bmo#1767360)         Out of bounds read when decoding H264
      * CVE-2022-40959 (bmo#1782211)         Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages
      * CVE-2022-40960 (bmo#1787633)         Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads
      * CVE-2022-40958 (bmo#1779993)         Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host         and __Secure prefix
      * CVE-2022-40956 (bmo#1770094)         Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass
      * CVE-2022-40957 (bmo#1777604)         Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64
      * CVE-2022-3155 (bmo#1789061)         Attachment files saved to disk on macOS could be executed         without warning
      * CVE-2022-40962 (bmo#1776655, bmo#1777574, bmo#1784835,         bmo#1785109, bmo#1786502, bmo#1789440)         Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.3

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 102.7.1-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1951 advisory.

    2025-01-30: CVE-2022-31744 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-30: CVE-2022-3155 was added to this advisory.

    2024-05-23: CVE-2023-0430 was added to this advisory.

    An out of date graphics library (Angle) likely contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be     exploited. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9 and Firefox ESR < 78.9. (CVE-2021-4127)

    Mozilla developers and community members Julian Hector, Randell Jesup, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith,     Christian Holler, and Masayuki Nakano reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 94. Some of these     bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have     been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 95, Firefox ESR < 91.4.0, and     Thunderbird < 91.4.0. (CVE-2021-4129)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of if an     attacker corrupted an object prototype, they could set undesired attributes on a JavaScript object,     leading to privileged code execution. (CVE-2022-2200)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that Thunderbird     did not set the attribute com.apple.quarantine on the received file when saving or opening an email     attachment on macOS. If the received file was an application and the user attempted to open it, the     application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm. (CVE-2022-3155)

    An attacker could have injected CSS into stylesheets accessible via internal URIs, such as resource:, and     in doing so bypass a page's Content Security Policy. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 91.11,     Thunderbird < 102, Thunderbird < 91.11, and Firefox < 101. (CVE-2022-31744)

    An out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding H264 video. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.3, Thunderbird < 102.3, and Firefox < 105. (CVE-2022-3266)

    An iframe that was not permitted to run scripts could do so if the user clicked on a     <code>javascript:</code> link. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11, Thunderbird     < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11. (CVE-2022-34468)

    Session history navigations may have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11, Thunderbird < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11.
    (CVE-2022-34470)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue that if a PAC     URL was set and the server that hosts the PAC was not reachable, OCSP requests are blocked, resulting in     incorrect error pages being shown. (CVE-2022-34472)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue of a malicious     website that creates a popup that could have resized the popup to overlay the address bar with its own     content, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2022-34479)

    A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes the issue within the     `nsTArray_Impl::ReplaceElementsAt()` function, where an integer overflow could occur when the number of     elements to replace was too large for the container. (CVE-2022-34481)

    The Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported potential vulnerabilities present in Thunderbird 91.10. Some of these     bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have     been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102, Firefox ESR < 91.11,     Thunderbird < 102, and Thunderbird < 91.11. (CVE-2022-34484)

    A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was identified in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR. This     vulnerability occurs when the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local     variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). An attacker could cause of denial-of-service style crash     by exploiting this vulnerability. To exploit this vulnerability, a remote, unauthenticated attacker would     need to convince a user to visit a specially crafted website or open a malicious document.
    (CVE-2022-40961)

    If a Thunderbird user quoted from an HTML email, for example by replying to the email, and the email     contained either a VIDEO tag with the POSTER attribute or an OBJECT tag with a DATA attribute, a network     request to the referenced remote URL was performed, regardless of a configuration to block remote content.
    An image loaded from the POSTER attribute was shown in the composer window. These issues could have given     an attacker additional capabilities when targetting releases that did not yet have a fix for CVE-2022-3033     which was reported around three months ago. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.5.1.
    (CVE-2022-45414)

    RESERVEDNOTE: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-51/#CVE-2022-46871     (CVE-2022-46871)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An attacker who compromised a content     process could have partially escaped the sandbox to read arbitrary files via clipboard-related IPC     messages.

    *This bug only affects Firefox for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected.* (CVE-2022-46872)

    A file with a long filename could have had its filename truncated to remove the valid extension, leaving a     malicious extension in its place. This could potentially led to user confusion and the execution of     malicious code.<br/>*Note*: This issue was originally included in the advisories for Thunderbird 102.6,     but a patch (specific to Thunderbird) was omitted, resulting in it actually being fixed in Thunderbird     102.6.1. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Thunderbird < 102.6.1, Thunderbird < 102.6, and Firefox     ESR < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46874)

    By confusing the browser, the fullscreen notification could have been delayed or suppressed, resulting in     potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 108. (CVE-2022-46877)

    Mozilla developers Randell Jesup, Valentin Gosu, Olli Pettay, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory     safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.5. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we     presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 108, Firefox ESR < 102.6, and Thunderbird < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46878)

    A missing check related to tex units could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable     crash.<br />*Note*: This advisory was added on December 13th, 2022 after we better understood the impact     of the issue. The fix was included in the original release of Firefox 105. This vulnerability affects     Firefox ESR < 102.6, Firefox < 105, and Thunderbird < 102.6. (CVE-2022-46880)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: An optimization in WebGL was incorrect in     some cases, and could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-46881)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A use-after-free in WebGL extensions     could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-46882)

    Certificate OCSP revocation status was not checked when verifying S/Mime signatures. Mail signed with a     revoked certificate would be displayed as having a valid signature. Thunderbird versions from 68 to     102.7.0 were affected by this bug. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 102.7.1. (CVE-2023-0430)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Due to the Firefox GTK wrapper code's use of text/plain for drag data and GTK treating all text/plain     MIMEs containing file URLs as being dragged a website could arbitrarily read a file via a call to     DataTransfer.setData. (CVE-2023-23598)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    When copying a network request from the developer tools panel as a curl command the output was not being     properly sanitized and could allow arbitrary commands to be hidden within. (CVE-2023-23599)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Navigations were being allowed when dragging a URL from a cross-origin iframe into the same tab which     could lead to website spoofing attacks (CVE-2023-23601)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    A mishandled security check when creating a WebSocket in a WebWorker caused the Content Security Policy     connect-src header to be ignored. This could lead to connections to restricted origins from inside     WebWorkers. (CVE-2023-23602)

    Regular expressions used to filter out forbidden properties and values from style directives in calls to     console.log weren't accounting for external URLs. Data could then be potentially exfiltrated from the     browser. (CVE-2023-23603)

    The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

    Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108 and     Firefox ESR 102.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough     effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-23605)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202209-18 (Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - When saving or opening an email attachment on macOS, Thunderbird did not set attribute     com.apple.quarantine on the received file. If the received file was an application and the user attempted     to open it, then the application was started immediately without asking the user to confirm.
    (CVE-2022-3155)

  - When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the     injected element's base instead.  (CVE-2022-40956)

  - Inconsistent data in instruction and data cache when creating wasm code could lead to a potentially     exploitable crash. This bug only affects Firefox on ARM64 platforms.  (CVE-2022-40957)

  - By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a     secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and     other attacks.  (CVE-2022-40958)

  - During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a     bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments.  (CVE-2022-40959)

  - Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-     free causing a potentially exploitable crash.  (CVE-2022-40960)

  - Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2. Some of these bugs     showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been     exploited to run arbitrary code.  (CVE-2022-40962)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
165299	Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.3	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	9/22/2022	11/18/2025	high
165300	Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.3	Nessus	Windows	9/22/2022	11/18/2025	high
166692	SUSE SLED15: MozillaThunderbird / MozillaThunderbird-translations-common / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3800-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/28/2022	6/26/2026	high
171818	Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2023-1951)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	2/23/2023	12/19/2025	critical
165537	GLSA-202209-18 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	9/29/2022	10/10/2023	high

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