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CVE-2021-23972
Published: Feb 26, 2021
Modified: Aug 3, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://[email protected]'. 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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Mozilla | Firefox | affected < 86 |
References
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536
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GLSA-202104-10
vendor-advisory
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