{"id":"CVE-2021-23972","details":"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affects Firefox \u003c 86.","modified":"2026-05-04T08:33:47.428381Z","published":"2021-02-26T02:15:13.180Z","withdrawn":"2026-05-04T08:33:47.428381Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-10"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-07/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683536"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"86.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-23972.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}