CVE-2016-5260

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280294

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3