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CVE-2021-23972
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 86.0 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/