CVE-2004-0779

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) Mozilla 1.6, (2) Firebird 0.7 and (3) Firefox 0.8 web browsers do not properly verify that cached passwords for SSL encrypted sites are only sent via SSL encrypted sessions to the site, which allows a remote attacker to cause a cached password to be sent in cleartext to a spoofed site.

Affected products

FirebirdSQL firebird: 0.7
Mozilla Firefox: 0.8
Mozilla: 1.6

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018

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