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CVE-2021-23972
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://[email protected]'. To mitigate…
High8.8EPSS 1.0%
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- mozilla
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://[email protected]'. 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- HTTP Auth phishing warning was omitted when a redirect is cached
Affected products
References (3)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-202104-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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)
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