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Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2022-50, MFSA2022-50) - Mac OS X

🗓️ 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType 
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Mozilla Thunderbird Security Bypass Vulnerability on Mac OS

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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.826722");
  script_version("2025-09-16T05:38:45+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-45414");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.4");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-16 05:38:45 +0000 (Tue, 16 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:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-01-05 14:29:00 +0000 (Thu, 05 Jan 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-12-01 12:51:50 +0530 (Thu, 01 Dec 2022)");
  script_name("Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2022-50, MFSA2022-50) - Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to a security
  bypass vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
  on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists when a Thunderbird user quoted
  from an HTML 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.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
  attackers to execute JavaScript code included in the message in the context
  of the message compose document, read and modify the contents of the message
  compose document, including the quoted original message, which could potentially
  contain the decrypted plaintext of encrypted data in the crafted email.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird version before
  102.5.1 on Mac OS X.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 102.5.1
  or later, Please see the references for more information.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-50/");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_mozilla_prdts_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Thunderbird/MacOSX/Version");
  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:"102.5.1")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"102.5.1", install_path:path);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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16 Sep 2025 00:00Current
8.5High risk
Vulners AI Score8.5
CVSS 3.18.1
EPSS0.00528
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