Bug 977603 – CVE-2013-1692 Mozilla: Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks (MFSA 2013-54)

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Bug 977603 - (CVE-2013-1692) CVE-2013-1692 Mozilla: Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks (MFSA 2013-54)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1692 Mozilla: Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF at...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2013-1692

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2013-06-24 21:59 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-04 07:18 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0981	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2013-06-25 20:11:27 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0982	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2013-06-25 20:01:13 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-24 21:59:29 EDT

Security researcher Johnathan Kuskos reported that Firefox is sending data in the body of XMLHttpRequest (XHR) HEAD requests, which goes agains 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.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-54.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Johnathan Kuskos as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 16:02:44 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 16:13:03 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0981 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html

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