CVE-2005-2395 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8 http://www.osvdb.org/19002 http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405666 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22272