Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an encrypted channel is available.
References
- 19002 vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851
- 8 third-party-advisory
- 20050719 Mozilla cleartext credentials leak bug report to excuse myself (Re[2]: NTLM HTTP Authentication is insecure by design - a new writeup by Amit Klein) mailing-list
- http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html
- mozilla-authentication-weakness(22272) vdb-entry
- 14325 vdb-entry