Mozilla Thunderbird CVE-2013-1692 Weak Authentication Vulnerability

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Security researcher Johnathan Kuskos reported that Firefox is sending data in the body of XMLHttpRequest (XHR) HEAD requests, which goes agains the XHR specification. This can potentially be used for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks against sites which do not distinguish between HEAD and POST requests.

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Thunderbird
Thunderbird ESR

CVE References

CVE-2013-1692