Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. 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.
Published: 2021-02-26
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-10893 One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4756-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.988Z

Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-23972

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-26T02:15:13.180

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:07.703

Link: CVE-2021-23972

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