CVE-2021-23972
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. 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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23972
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23972.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 86.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 86.0-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.