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.
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| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
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 |
USN-4756-1 | Firefox vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.988Z
Reserved: 2021-01-13T00:00:00
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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EUVD
Ubuntu USN