01 Record
CVE-2005-2395
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-07-27 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 22:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-07-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9f0a5fb55fb54c06a6e3943d198aa4c81100f57385cebdde18eccc79872dffca
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.osvdb.org19002http://www.osvdb.org/19002
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851
- securityreason.com8http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8
- www.securityfocus.com20050719 Mozilla cleartext credentials leak bug report to excuse myself (Re[2]: NTLM HTTP Authentication is insecure by design - a new writeup by Amit Klein)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405666
- www.securiteam.comhttp://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commozilla-authentication-weakness(22272)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22272
- www.securityfocus.com14325http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325