CVE-2008-0367

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, 3.0b2, and possibly earlier versions, when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication, displays the site requesting the authentication after the Realm text, which might make it easier for remote HTTP servers to conduct phishing and spoofing attacks.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.11; 3.0-beta2

References

http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/02/YetAnotherDialogSpoofingFirefoxBasicAuthentication.aspx
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/05/FirefoxDialogSpoofingFAQ.aspx
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/01/04/basicauth-dialog-realm-value-spoofing/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485732/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485738/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27111
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244273
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/02/YetAnotherDialogSpoofingFirefoxBasicAuthentication.aspx
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/01/05/FirefoxDialogSpoofingFAQ.aspx
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/01/04/basicauth-dialog-realm-value-spoofing/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485732/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485738/100/200/threaded

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