ghsa-mvf9-xj62-qhwc
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-12-09 00:00
Modified
2022-03-17 00:06
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details

The Opportunistic Encryption feature of HTTP2 (RFC 8164) allows a connection to be transparently upgraded to TLS while retaining the visual properties of an HTTP connection, including being same-origin with unencrypted connections on port 80. However, if a second encrypted port on the same IP address (e.g. port 8443) did not opt-in to opportunistic encryption; a network attacker could forward a connection from the browser to port 443 to port 8443, causing the browser to treat the content of port 8443 as same-origin with HTTP. This was resolved by disabling the Opportunistic Encryption feature, which had low usage. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 94, Thunderbird < 91.3, and Firefox ESR < 91.3.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-38507"
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    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-346"
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-12-08T22:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-mvf9-xj62-qhwc",
  "modified": "2022-03-17T00:06:36Z",
  "published": "2021-12-09T00:00:24Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html"
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html"
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      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026"
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}


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