CVE-2021-23972 | BDVDB-2026-149754 Detail

MozillaFirefox

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-02-26Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-03Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.