MFSA 2013-54: Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacksID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:15003 | Date: (C)2013-09-01 (M)2024-03-27 |
Class: PATCH | Family: windows |
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: |
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
Microsoft Windows 11 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 |
Microsoft Windows XP |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
Microsoft Windows Vista |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Microsoft Windows 8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Product: |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
Mozilla SeaMonkey |
Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR |
Mozilla Firefox ESR |