CVE-2005-2395

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an encrypted channel is available.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an encrypted channel is available.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mozilla Firefox

First reported 19 years ago

2005-07-27 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5

1.0.5

References

8

19002

http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html

20050719 Mozilla cleartext credentials leak bug report to excuse myself (Re[2]: NTLM HTTP Authentication is insecure by design - a new writeup by Amit Klein)

Exploit

14325

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851

mozilla-authentication-weakness(22272)

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