CVE-2010-0172: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js in the asynchronous Authorization Prompt implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 does not properly handle concurrent authorization requests from multiple web sites, which might allow remote web servers to spoof an authorization dialog and capture credentials by demanding HTTP authentication in opportunistic circumstances.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.6 only

Published 2010-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.