CVE-2021-23972

published 2021-02-26

CVE-2021-23972: 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…

Priority P3 37 high 8.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	firefox	< firefox 86.0-1 (sid)	firefox 86.0-1 (sid)
mozilla	firefox	< 86	86
mozilla	firefox	< 86.0	86.0
mozilla	firefox	—	—
mozilla	firefox	>= 0 < 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1	86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
mozilla	firefox	>= 0 < 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1	86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
mozilla	firefox	>= 0 < 86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1	86.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 8.8 HIGH

vendor_debian 8.8 HIGH

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