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CVE-2021-23972 One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth

Description

One phishing tactic on the web is to provide a link with HTTP Auth. For example 'https://www.phishingtarget.com@evil.com'. To mitigate this type of attack, Firefox will display a warning dialog; however, this warning dialog would not have been displayed if evil.com used a redirect that was cached by the browser. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 86.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Firefox 86 earliest → < 86 86

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