Password Flaw also in Firefox 1.5.08. Was: Big Flaw in Firefox 2: Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fash1on@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:fash1on@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:58 AM
> Subject: Big Flaw in Firefox 2: Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords
>
>
> "Today, Mozilla made public bug #360493, which exposes
> Firefox's Password Manager on many public sites. The flaw
> derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and
> password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a
> domain. For example, username/password input tags on a
> Myspace user's site will be unhelpfully propagated with the
> visitor's Myspace.com credentials. It was first discovered in
> the wild by Netcraft on Oct. 27. As this proof-of-concept
> illustrates, because the username/password fields need not be
> visible on the page, your password can be stolen in an almost
> completely transparent fashion. PoC here:
> http://www.info-svc.com/news/11-21-2006/rcsr1/
>
Looks like this also affects FireFox 1.5.08.