Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0779

Title: Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox cached password cleartext transmission

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0779.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 18, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0779: 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.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 2

firebirdsql 1

firebird 1

Reference Links

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226278 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:082 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17018

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0779 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 18, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.