Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-23972  

A security issue was found in Firefox before version 86.0. 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.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

A security issue was found in Firefox before version 86.0. 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.

AVG-1599 firefox 85.0.2-1 86.0-1 High Fixed

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/#CVE-2021-23972
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536