Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2021-06, MFSA2021-09) - Windows
🗓️ 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 252 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox affect IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring | 18 May 202111:41 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox (less than Firefox 78.9.0 ESR + CVE-2021-23978) have affected Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4.0-8.1.4 IF13 + CP4MCM2.2 | 12 May 202102:37 | – | ibm | |
| Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package thunderbird version 78.8.0-alt1 | 25 Feb 202100:00 | – | altlinux | |
| Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package firefox-esr version 78.8.0-alt1 | 23 Feb 202100:00 | – | altlinux | |
| CVE-2021-23978 | 26 Feb 202116:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| CVE-2021-23969 | 26 Feb 202102:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| CVE-2021-23968 | 26 Feb 202102:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| CVE-2021-23973 | 26 Feb 202102:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2021-1618) | 19 Mar 202100:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 8 : firefox (CESA-2021:0655) | 27 Feb 202100:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| mozilla | www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/ |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.817944");
script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-23969", "CVE-2021-23968", "CVE-2021-23973", "CVE-2021-23978");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-12 05:38:45 +0000 (Fri, 12 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-05-01 02:15:00 +0000 (Sat, 01 May 2021)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-02-24 12:39:22 +0530 (Wed, 24 Feb 2021)");
script_name("Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2021-06, MFSA2021-09) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to:
- Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination
of a redirect.
- MediaError message property could have leaked information about cross-origin
resources.
- Memory safety bugs.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers
to run arbitrary code, leak sensitive information and bypass security
restrictions.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird version before 78.8
on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 78.8
or later. Please see the references for more information.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-09/");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_thunderbird_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Thunderbird/Win/Ver");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less(version:vers, test_version:"78.8")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"78.8", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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12 Sep 2025 00:00Current
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Vulners AI Score8.4
CVSS 3.18.8
CVSS 26.8
EPSS0.0153