Published: 26/02/2021 Updated: 23/05/2022

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 605

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

One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example '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.

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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-07 Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 86 Announced February 23, 2021 Impact high Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 86 ...

A security issue was found in Firefox before version 860 One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth For example wwwphishingtargetcom@evilcom To mitigate this type of attack, Firefox will display a warning dialog; however, this warning dialog would not have been displayed if evilcom used a redirect that was ca ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23972

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