Privacy Leakage: Firefox Caching Vulnerability Exposes Website Titles in Private Browsing Mode

Privacy Leakage: Firefox Caching Vulnerability Exposes Website Titles in Private Browsing Mode

CVE-2021-29960 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Firefox used to cache the last filename used for printing a file. When generating a filename for printing, Firefox usually suggests the web page title. The caching and suggestion techniques combined may have lead to the title of a website visited during private browsing mode being stored on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 89.

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