Closed Bug 272006 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Possibility of faking the master password prompt

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101611

People

(Reporter: kosta_kp, Assigned: bryner)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 The master password prompt looks too much like a regular Javascript prompt. Sites could fake this prompt and get users' master passwords. Make the prompt clearly identifiable with Firefox and put in a warning about the possibility of spoofs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101611 ***
Group: security
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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