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ghsa-vr8w-9hf4-f445

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:43

Modified

2022-05-28 00:00

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

When processing a redirect with a conflicting Referrer-Policy, Firefox would have adopted the redirect's Referrer-Policy. This would have potentially resulted in more information than intended by the original origin being provided to the destination of the redirect. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

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CVE-2021-23971 (GCVE-0-2021-23971)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-02-26 01:55

Modified

2024-08-03 19:14

Severity ?

CWE

A website's Referrer-Policy could have been be overridden, potentially resulting in the full URL being sent as a Referrer

Summary

When processing a redirect with a conflicting Referrer-Policy, Firefox would have adopted the redirect's Referrer-Policy. This would have potentially resulted in more information than intended by the original origin being provided to the destination of the redirect. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678545	x_refsource_MISC
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: < 86

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