FKIE_CVE-2022-42931

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-12-22 20:15 - Updated: 2025-04-15 16:15
Severity ?
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780571Issue Tracking
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780571Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2022-44/Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780571Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox *
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