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CVE-2010-0172

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js in the asynchronous Authorization Prompt implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not properly handle concurrent authorization requests from multiple web sites, which might allow remote web servers to spoof an authorization dialog and capture credentials by demanding HTTP authentication in opportunistic circumstances.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Mozilla — Firefox

CWEs

References

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