Published: 05/08/2016 Updated: 16/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Mozilla Firefox prior to 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow malicious users to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-74 Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file Announced August 2, 2016 Reporter Mike Kaply Impact Moderate Products Firefox ...

Mozilla Firefox before 480 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file ...

CWE-200 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280294 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3044-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

CVE-2016-5260

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