CVE-2010-0172

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js in the asynchronous Authorization Prompt implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not properly handle concurrent authorization requests from multiple web sites, which might allow remote web servers to spoof an authorization dialog and capture credentials by demanding HTTP authentication in opportunistic circumstances.

toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js in the asynchronous Authorization Prompt implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not properly handle concurrent authorization requests from multiple web sites, which might allow remote web servers to spoof an authorization dialog and capture credentials by demanding HTTP authentication in opportunistic circumstances.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 14 years ago

2010-03-25 21:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:30:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 3.6

3.6

References

MDVSA-2010:070

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-15.html

Patch

38918

ADV-2010-0692

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537862

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8281

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