CVE-2004-0779

N/A Unknown
Published: August 18, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026
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Description

The (1) Mozilla 1.6, (2) Firebird 0.7 and (3) Firefox 0.8 web browsers do not properly verify that cached passwords for SSL encrypted sites are only sent via SSL encrypted sessions to the site, which allows a remote attacker to cause a cached password to be sent in cleartext to a spoofed site.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.8%
74th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

mozilla firebirdsql