Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-0367
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, 3.0b2, and possibly earlier versions, when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication, displays the site requesting the authentication after the Realm text, which might make it easier for remote HTTP servers to conduct phishing and spoofing attacks.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (77.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/01/04/basicauth-dialog-realm-value-spoofing/ (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/05/FirefoxDialogSpoofingFAQ.aspx (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485738/100/200/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485732/100/200/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27111 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/02/YetAnotherDialogSpoofingFirefoxBasicAuthentication.a… (Third Party Advisory)