HIGH
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth
Published Feb 26, 2021
8.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.01%
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. To mitigate this type of attack, Firefox will display a warning dialog; however, this warning dialog would not have been displayed if evil.com used a redirect that was cached by the browser. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.
Affected products
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Affected
- < 86
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Remediation
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Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (4)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536 x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-10893 Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/ x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536 | x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory | |
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-10893 | Advisory | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory | |
| https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/ | x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory |
Change history (0)
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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published Feb 26, 2021
Updated Aug 3, 2024
Reserved Jan 13, 2021
Link CVE-2021-23972
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