Closed Bug 1585233 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Opera knows all my passwords saved in Firefox - very scary!!!

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Version:
69 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: leontancfa, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36 OPR/63.0.3368.94

Steps to reproduce:

I installed other software (uTorrent), and it installed Opera browser without my knowing.

Actual results:

That is fine, but what's more scary, when I opened Opera, I found that it knows all my passwords saved in Firefox!!!!!!!! That is so scary!

Expected results:

passwords saved in Firefox should stay within Firefox and should not be stolen by Opera!

I'm fairly sure this is expected if you haven't set a master password. Matt?

Component: Untriaged → Password Manager
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

That’s correct since desktop operating systems historically haven’t provided good ways to segregate data stored by separate applications. Opera can read from Firefox’s profile folder and since you have no master password it can decrypt the passwords.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Group: firefox-core-security
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