Closed Bug 1674525 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Show passwords locks Thunderbird 78.4.0 on two different Windows 10 computers.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Security
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: clinewf, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Repeated it several times on two different Windows 10 computers -- both 64 bit and fully up to date. Tried it again a day later and got the same result.

Actual results:

I went to "saved logins," clicked on "show passwords," then entered my Windows PIN. This caused a sort of blurred overlay and Thunderbird was locked up. I've shown passwords successfully many times on this computer with previous versions of Thunderbird

Expected results:

The passwords would be shown.
I've been using Thunderbird for well over 10 years and have never seen this behavior.

Does it happen after doing Help > restart with add-ons disabled ?

Component: Untriaged → Security

I believe you're referring to the OS re authentication we now require to show the passwords (to prevent casual password snooping by e.g. family members).

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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