CVE-2021-38507
CVE Information
CVE ID
CVE-2021-38507
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS 6.5
Publish Date
2021-12-08
Description
The Opportunistic Encryption feature of HTTP2 (RFC 8164) allows a connection to be transparently upgraded to TLS while retaining the visual properties of an HTTP connection, including being same-origin with unencrypted connections on port 80. However, if a second encrypted port on the same IP address (e.g. port 8443) did not opt-in to opportunistic encryption; a network attacker could forward a connection from the browser to port 443 to port 8443, causing the browser to treat the content of port 8443 as same-origin with HTTP. This was resolved by disabling the Opportunistic Encryption feature, which had low usage. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 94, Thunderbird < 91.3, and Firefox ESR < 91.3.
Collection Date
2026-01-13
Impact Summary
Affected Hosts
1
Related Incidents
0
Related Alerts
0
Affected Hosts (1)
| Hostname | OS Type | Severity | Total CVEs |
|---|---|---|---|
| inbridge-ubt-24 | LINUX | CRITICAL | 2364 |