CVE-2021-23971

Description

When processing a redirect with a conflicting Referrer-Policy, Firefox would have adopted the redirect's Referrer-Policy. This would have potentially resulted in more information than intended by the original origin being provided to the destination of the redirect. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678545

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3