DEBIAN-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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | firefox-esr | *, 78.15.0esr-1~deb9u1, 91.0.1esr-1 |
| Debian:12 | firefox-esr | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | thunderbird | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | firefox-esr | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | thunderbird | 1:91.0.2-1, 1:91.0~b1-1, 1:91.0~b3-1 |
| Debian:12 | thunderbird | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | thunderbird | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | firefox-esr | 0, 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- cve_test.go (github-poc)
- cve_test.go (github-poc)
Timeline
- Dec 8, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated