Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting mozilla-nss package, versions <3.44.1-3.16.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-MOZILLANSS-2743100
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Jul 2019

Introduced: 17 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-11712  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 mozilla-nss to version 3.44.1-3.16.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mozilla-nss package and not the mozilla-nss package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

POST requests made by NPAPI plugins, such as Flash, that receive a status 308 redirect response can bypass CORS requirements. This can allow an attacker to perform Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Firefox < 68, and Thunderbird < 60.8.