Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisory (MFSA2021-50) - Windows
🗓️ 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
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| mozilla | www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.826443");
script_version("2025-06-04T05:40:50+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-38503", "CVE-2021-38504", "CVE-2021-43534", "CVE-2021-38506",
"CVE-2021-38507", "CVE-2021-43535", "CVE-2021-38508", "CVE-2021-38509",
"CVE-2021-43529", "CVE-2021-43527");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-06-04 05:40:50 +0000 (Wed, 04 Jun 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-12-13 19:53:00 +0000 (Mon, 13 Dec 2021)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-09-09 17:16:29 +0530 (Fri, 09 Sep 2022)");
script_name("Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisory (MFSA2021-50) - 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,
- iframe sandbox rules did not apply to XSLT stylesheets.
- Use-after-free in file picker dialog.
- Thunderbird could be coaxed into going into fullscreen mode without notification or warning.
- Opportunistic Encryption in HTTP2 could be used to bypass the Same-Origin-Policy on services
hosted on other ports.
- Use-after-free in HTTP2 Session object.
- Permission Prompt could be overlaid, resulting in user confusion and potential spoofing.
- Javascript alert box could have been spoofed onto an arbitrary domain.
- Memory corruption when processing S/MIME messages.
- NSS has a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures.
- Memory safety bugs.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
attackers to run arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, conduct spoofing
and cause a denial of service on affected system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird version before
91.3 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 91.3
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/mfsa2021-50");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 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:"91.3")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"91.3", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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