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TITLE:
Firefox Password Manager Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23046

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23046/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/12434/
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4227/

DESCRIPTION:
Robert Chapin has discovered a vulnerability in Firefox, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the Password Manager not properly
checking the URL before automatically filling in saved user
credentials into forms. This may be exploited to steal user
credentials via malicious forms in the same domain.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Disable the "Remember passwords for sites" option in the preferences.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Robert Chapin

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.info-svc.com/news/11-21-2006/

OTHER REFERENCES:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360493

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8

[J-M]

This InfoWorld article discussing the issue has been published.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8