Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2010-0172
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.
EPSS: 0.014 (69.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.6
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)