vulnerability

Arch Linux: Same-origin policy bypass (CVE-2021-38507)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 8, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox before version 94 and Thunderbird before version 91.3. 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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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