CVE-2005-2395

critical

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22272

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325

http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html

http://www.osvdb.org/19002

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-07-27

Updated: 2017-07-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical