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Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.12

🗓️ 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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The version of Mozilla Thunderbird on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is < 102.12 and may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities including missing activation delay for sites with invalid TLS certificates and memory safety bugs

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
## 
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#                                  
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory mfsa2023-21.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mozilla Foundation.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(177090);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/18");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-34414", "CVE-2023-34416");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0284-S");

  script_name(english:"Mozilla Thunderbird < 102.12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A mail client installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 102.12. It is, therefore, affected
by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2023-21 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers and community members Gabriele Svelto, Andrew McCreight, the Mozilla Fuzzing Team, Sean
    Feng, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.11. 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-2023-34416)

  - The error page for sites with invalid TLS certificates was missing the activation-delay Thunderbird uses
    to protect prompts and permission dialogs from attacks that exploit human response time delays. If a
    malicious page elicited user clicks in precise locations immediately before navigating to a site with a
    certificate error and made the renderer extremely busy at the same time, it could create a gap between
    when the error page was loaded and when the display actually refreshed. With the right timing the elicited
    clicks could land in that gap and  activate the button that overrides the certificate error for that site.
    (CVE-2023-34414)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-21/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 102.12 or later.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-34416");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/06/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/06/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/06/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("macosx_thunderbird_installed.nasl");
  script_require_keys("installed_sw/Mozilla Thunderbird");

  exit(0);
}

include('vdf.inc');

# @tvdl-content-verify-only
var vuln_data = {
  "metadata": {
    "spec_version": "1.0"
  },
  "requires": [
    {
      "scope": "target",
      "match": {
        "os": "macos"
      }
    }
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "product": {
        "name": "Mozilla Thunderbird",
        "type": "app"
      },
      "check_algorithm": "default",
      "constraints": [
        {
          "fixed_version": "102.12"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
};

var vdf_result = vdf::check_and_report(vuln_data:vuln_data, severity:SECURITY_HOLE);
vdf::handle_check_and_report_errors(vdf_result:vdf_result);

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