Vulnerability CVE-2005-2395
Published: 2005-07-27   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox authentication weakness
3APA3A (3APA3A S...
17.09.2005

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

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