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CVE-2010-0172

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js in the asynchronous Authorization Prompt implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not properly handle concurrent authorization requests from multiple web sites, which might allow remote web servers to spoof an authorization dialog and capture credentials by demanding HTTP authentication in opportunistic circumstances.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 3.6

References

• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-15.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38918
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0692
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537862
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8281
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-15.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38918
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0692
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537862
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8281

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