Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting Firefox package, versions [,106)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREFOX-3180511
  • published23 Dec 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2022
  • creditSergey Galich

Introduced: 23 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-42931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Firefox to version 106 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials such that the username (not password) is saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1