Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9803  

The Upgrade-Insecure-Requests (UIR) specification states that if UIR is enabled through Content Security Policy (CSP), navigation to a same-origin URL must be upgraded to HTTPS. Firefox before 66.0 will incorrectly navigate to an HTTP URL rather than perform the security upgrade requested by the CSP in some circumstances, allowing for potential man-in-the-middle attacks on the linked resources.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

The Upgrade-Insecure-Requests (UIR) specification states that if UIR is enabled through Content Security Policy (CSP), navigation to a same-origin URL must be upgraded to HTTPS. Firefox before 66.0 will incorrectly navigate to an HTTP URL rather than perform the security upgrade requested by the CSP in some circumstances, allowing for potential man-in-the-middle attacks on the linked resources.

AVG-925 firefox 65.0.2-1 66.0-1 Critical Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/#CVE-2019-9803
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515863
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1437009
https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-upgrade-insecure-requests/