CVE-2021-29991

Description

Firefox incorrectly accepted a newline in a HTTP/3 header, interpretting it as two separate headers. This allowed for a header splitting attack against servers using HTTP/3. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 91.0.1 and Thunderbird < 91.0.1.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.1
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.341

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29991 are fixed in Mozilla Firefox (91.0.1)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29991 are fixed in Mozilla Firefox (x64) (91.0.1)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29991 are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 91.0.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-29991 are fixed in Mozilla Firefox For Mac (91.0.1)Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox for Mac 91.0Mac
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client (USN-5248-1) thunderbird_91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:1582-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) MozillaFirefox-91.9.0-112.104.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-320981Mozilla Firefox (91.0.1)
PATCH-320982Mozilla Firefox (x64) (91.0.1)
PATCH-607000Mozilla Firefox For Mac (124.0)
PATCH-611870Mozilla Firefox For Mac (142.0.1)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234