A malicious extension with the 'search' permission could have installed a new search engine whose favicon referenced a cross-origin URL. The response to this cross-origin request could have been read by the extension, allowing a same-origin policy bypass by the extension, which should not have cross-origin permissions. This cross-origin request was made without cookies, so the sensitive information disclosed by the violation was limited to local-network resources or resources that perform IP-based authentication. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 87.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2021-03-31T13:41:04

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.955Z

Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-23986

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-31T14:15:19.343

Modified: 2021-08-06T18:18:20.120

Link: CVE-2021-23986

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