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CVE-2005-2395

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 1.0.4, 1.0.5

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8
• http://www.osvdb.org/19002
• http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405666
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22272
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8
• http://www.osvdb.org/19002
• http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405666
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325

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