Bug 993604 – CVE-2013-1714 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest (MFSA 2013-73)

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Bug 993604 - (CVE-2013-1714) CVE-2013-1714 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest (MFSA 2013-73)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1714 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2013-1714

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

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Reported:	2013-08-06 05:24 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-06-10 17:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-06-10 17:11:37 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1140	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2013-08-07 08:21:43 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1142	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2013-08-07 18:08:51 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-06 05:24:27 EDT

Mozilla community member Federico Lanusse reported a mechanism where a web worker can violate same-origin policy and bypass cross-origin checks through XMLHttpRequest. This could allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by web workers.

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



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-73.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 04:24:37 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1140 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1140.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 14:11:49 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1142 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1142.html

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