sendBeacon requests lack an Origin header — Mozilla

2015-01-1300:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.006

Percentile

79.6%

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Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that navigator.sendBeacon() does not follow the cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) specification. This results in the request from sendBeacon() lacking an origin header in violation of the W3C Beacon specification and not being treated as a CORS request. This allows for a potential Cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attack from malicious websites.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<35

mozillafirefox_esrRange<31.4

mozillafirefox_osRange<2.2

mozillaseamonkeyRange<2.32

mozillathunderbirdRange<31.4

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_os*cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
mozilla	firefox_os	*	cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::