High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-23972
CVE-2021-23972
Description
One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://[email protected]'. 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.
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Affected products
5< 86+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 86
- (no CPE)range: <86
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <86.0
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 92.0-1.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
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