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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
05/23/2019

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox, when configured to use a proxy, will respond to any server's HTTP 407 request and leak NTLM or SPNEGO credentials. As a result, an attacker can send the local user a link to a malicious web server which steals credentials when visited.

Solution(s)

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

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