Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,58)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379243
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5115  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 58 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded foreground page. Although the prompt contains the real domain making the request, this can result in user confusion about the originating site of the authentication request and may cause users to mistakenly send private credential information to a third party site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

CVSS Scores

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