Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617,…

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an encrypted channel is available.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 19002 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 8 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 20050719 Mozilla cleartext credentials leak bug report to excuse myself (Re[2]: NTLM HTTP Authentication is insecure by design - a new writeup by Amit Klein) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• mozilla-authentication-weakness(22272) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 14325 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 22:22 UTC.