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Mozilla Firefox Proxy Authentication Credentials Leakage

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Mozilla Firefox Proxy Authentication Credentials Leakage

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/02/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2005
Modified
08/28/2013

Description

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5, when configured to use a proxy, respond to 407 proxy auth requests from arbitrary servers, which allows remote attackers to steal NTLM or SPNEGO credentials.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_0
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

References

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