Proxy-Authorization Credentials Leakage in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey

CVE-2011-2990 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products does not remove proxy-authorization credentials from the listed request headers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a report, related to incorrect host resolution that occurs with certain redirects.

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