CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0779

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Mozilla 1.6, Firebird 0.7, and Firefox 0.8 browsers allows an attacker to intercept cached passwords for SSL sites. The browsers do not verify that passwords are only sent over SSL encrypted sessions, enabling them to be sent in cleartext to a spoofed site.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can spoof a legitimate SSL site and intercept cached user passwords, leading to credential disclosure and potential account takeover.

Recommendation

Immediately update browsers to newer versions that properly verify SSL connections before sending cached passwords. In the meantime, remove cached passwords for SSL sites.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The (1) Mozilla 1.6, (2) Firebird 0.7 and (3) Firefox 0.8 web browsers do not properly verify that cached passwords for SSL encrypted sites are only sent via SSL encrypted sessions to the site, which allows a remote attacker to cause a cached password to be sent in cleartext to a spoofed site.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS