CVE-2021-38507

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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730935 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034 Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-48/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-49/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730935 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034 Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-48/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-49/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/ Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 06:17

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730935 - Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory () https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730935 - Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
References () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00030.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202202-03 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026 - Third Party Advisory () https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5026 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034 - Third Party Advisory () https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-48/ - Vendor Advisory () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-48/ - Vendor Advisory
References () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-49/ - Vendor Advisory () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-49/ - Vendor Advisory
References () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/ - Vendor Advisory () https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/ - Vendor Advisory

Information

Published : 2021-12-08 22:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 06:17


NVD link : CVE-2021-38507

Mitre link : CVE-2021-38507

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-38507


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Products Affected

mozilla

  • thunderbird
  • firefox
  • firefox_esr

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-346

Origin Validation Error