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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38507

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38507 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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

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

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11firefox-esr*, 78.15.0esr-1~deb9u1, 91.0.1esr-1
Debian:12firefox-esr0, 0, 0
Debian:13thunderbird0, 0, 0
Debian:14firefox-esr0, 0, 0
Debian:11thunderbird1:91.0.2-1, 1:91.0~b1-1, 1:91.0~b3-1
Debian:12thunderbird0, 0, 0
Debian:14thunderbird0, 0, 0
Debian:13firefox-esr0, 0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Dec 8, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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