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MFSA2012-28 Firefox: Ambiguous IPv6 in Origin headers may bypass webserver access restrictions (CVE-2012-0475)

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MFSA2012-28 Firefox: Ambiguous IPv6 in Origin headers may bypass webserver access restrictions (CVE-2012-0475)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/25/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
12/19/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 do not properly construct the Origin and Sec-WebSocket-Origin HTTP headers, which might allow remote attackers to bypass an IPv6 literal ACL via a cross-site (1) XMLHttpRequest or (2) WebSocket operation involving a nonstandard port number and an IPv6 address that contains certain zero fields.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-12_0

References

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