It was discovered that Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-6792)

Mutiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6793, CVE-2020-6795, CVE-2020-6822)

It was discovered that if a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 60 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords would still be accessible. A local user could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-6794)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-20503, CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800, CVE-2020-6805, CVE-2020-6806, CVE-2020-6807, CVE-2020-6812, CVE-2020-6814, CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820, CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6825)

It was discovered that the Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data. If a user were tricked in to using the 'Copy as cURL' feature to copy and paste a command with specially crafted data in to a terminal, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary commands via command injection.
(CVE-2020-6811).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 68.5.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)

* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when processing certain email messages (CVE-2020-6793)

* Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Thunderbird 52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2020-6794)

* Mozilla: Crash processing S/MIME messages with multiple signatures (CVE-2020-6795)

* Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)

* Mozilla: Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data (CVE-2020-6792)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-0512 advisory.

  - A content process could have modified shared memory relating to crash reporting information, crash itself,     and cause an out-of-bound write. This could have caused memory corruption and a potentially exploitable     crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 73 and Firefox < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6796)

  - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR     68.4. 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. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited     through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are     potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5,     Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6800)

  - If a template tag was used in a select tag, the parser could be confused and allow JavaScript parsing and     execution when it should not be allowed. A site that relied on the browser behaving correctly could suffer     a cross-site scripting vulnerability as a result. In general, this flaw cannot be exploited through email     in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but is potentially a risk in     browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox     < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6798)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-0574 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR     68.4. 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. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited     through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are     potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5,     Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6800)

  - If a template tag was used in a select tag, the parser could be confused and allow JavaScript parsing and     execution when it should not be allowed. A site that relied on the browser behaving correctly could suffer     a cross-site scripting vulnerability as a result. In general, this flaw cannot be exploited through email     in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but is potentially a risk in     browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox     < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6798)

  - When deriving an identifier for an email message, uninitialized memory was used in addition to the message     contents. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6792)

  - When processing an email message with an ill-formed envelope, Thunderbird could read data from a random     memory location. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6793)

  - If a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 60 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy     of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted     when the data was copied to a new format starting in Thunderbird 60. The new master password is added only     on the new file. This could allow the exposure of stored password data outside of user expectations. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6794)

  - When processing a message that contains multiple S/MIME signatures, a bug in the MIME processing code     caused a null pointer dereference, leading to an unexploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6795)

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

Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has thunderbird packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - When removing data about an origin whose tab was recently closed, a use-after-free could occur in the     Quota manager, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird <     68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6. (CVE-2020-6805)

  - By carefully crafting promise resolutions, it was possible to cause an out-of-bounds read off the end of     an array resized during script execution. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and     Firefox ESR < 68.6. (CVE-2020-6806)

  - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not     escape < and > characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the     element this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently     copies the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability.
    Two WYSIWYG editors were identified with this behavior, more may exist. This vulnerability affects Firefox     ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72. (CVE-2019-17022)

  - When pasting a <style> tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer incorrectly     rewrites a @namespace rule. This could allow for injection into certain types of websites resulting in     data exfiltration. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72. (CVE-2019-17016)

  - Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a     crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This     vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72. (CVE-2019-17017)

  - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3. 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 ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.
    (CVE-2019-17024)

  - Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type     confusion. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw. This vulnerability affects     Firefox ESR < 68.4.1, Thunderbird < 68.4.1, and Firefox < 72.0.1. (CVE-2019-17026)

  - When processing an email message with an ill-formed envelope, Thunderbird could read data from a random     memory location. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6793)

  - When processing a message that contains multiple S/MIME signatures, a bug in the MIME processing code     caused a null pointer dereference, leading to an unexploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6795)

  - When deriving an identifier for an email message, uninitialized memory was used in addition to the message     contents. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6792)

  - If a template tag was used in a select tag, the parser could be confused and allow JavaScript parsing and     execution when it should not be allowed. A site that relied on the browser behaving correctly could suffer     a cross-site scripting vulnerability as a result. In general, this flaw cannot be exploited through email     in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but is potentially a risk in     browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5, Firefox < 73, and Firefox     < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6798)

  - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR     68.4. 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. In general, these flaws cannot be exploited     through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are     potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5,     Firefox < 73, and Firefox < ESR68.5. (CVE-2020-6800)

  - If a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 60 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy     of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted     when the data was copied to a new format starting in Thunderbird 60. The new master password is added only     on the new file. This could allow the exposure of stored password data outside of user expectations. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.5. (CVE-2020-6794)

  - The 'Copy as cURL' feature of Devtools' network tab did not properly escape the HTTP method of a request,     which can be controlled by the website. If a user used the 'Copy as Curl' feature and pasted the command     into a terminal, it could have resulted in command injection and arbitrary command execution. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.
    (CVE-2020-6811)

  - usrsctp before 2019-12-20 has out-of-bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init. (CVE-2019-20503)

  - The first time AirPods are connected to an iPhone, they become named after the user's name by default     (e.g. Jane Doe's AirPods.) Websites with camera or microphone permission are able to enumerate device     names, disclosing the user's name. To resolve this issue, Firefox added a special case that renames     devices containing the substring 'AirPods' to simply 'AirPods'. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird <     68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6. (CVE-2020-6812)

  - When a device was changed while a stream was about to be destroyed, the stream-reinit task     may have been executed after the stream was destroyed, causing a use-after-free and a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and     Firefox ESR < 68.6. (CVE-2020-6807)

  - Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox and Thunderbird 68.5. 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 Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox <     ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6. (CVE-2020-6814)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
135455	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4328-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/14/2020	10/21/2023	critical
134089	CentOS 6 : thunderbird (CESA-2020:0574)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2/27/2020	3/25/2024	high
180677	Oracle Linux 8 : firefox (ELSA-2020-0512)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	9/7/2023	9/7/2023	high
180685	Oracle Linux 6 : thunderbird (ELSA-2020-0574)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	9/7/2023	9/7/2023	high
133732	Debian DSA-4625-1 : thunderbird - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2/18/2020	3/27/2024	high
140291	NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2020-0046)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	9/7/2020	12/6/2022	critical
147312	NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.06 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0002)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	3/10/2021	4/25/2023	critical

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