Mozilla Products: Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks - mfsa2013-54| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:16317 | Date: (C)2013-12-30 (M)2023-12-07 |
| Class: PATCH | Family: macos |
Security researcher Johnathan Kuskos reported that Firefox is sending data in the body of XMLHttpRequest (XHR) HEAD requests, which goes against the XHR specification. This can potentially be used for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks against sites which do not distinguish between HEAD and POST requests.
| Platform: |
| Apple Mac OS 14 |
| Apple Mac OS 13 |
| Apple Mac OS 12 |
| Apple Mac OS 11 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.14 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.13 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.11 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.12 |
| Product: |
| Mozilla Firefox |
| Mozilla Thunderbird ESR |
| Mozilla SeaMonkey |
| Mozilla Thunderbird |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR |
