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CVE-2021-23972

One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 86
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Mozilla Firefox

    fixed in 86

References 3

mozilla.org

bugzilla.mozilla.org

security.gentoo.org