CVE-2021-23972

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 26, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 13, 2021

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	< 86Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536
GLSA-202104-10vendor-advisory

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