CVE-2014-8638

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-01-13
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The navigator.sendBeacon implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 35.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.4, Thunderbird before 31.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.32 omits the CORS Origin header, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended CORS access-control checks and conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via a crafted web site.

See more information about CVE-2014-8638 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2015-0047	2015-01-13
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2015-0047	2015-01-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14
Oracle Linux version 7 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2015-0046	2015-01-14