CVE-2005-2395: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only

Published 2005-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.