279101 - Security bug for internet banking (java application)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Jan Meijnaerts]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The bank uses a java application to ask for login information, such as a digital
key of 4 digits among a possibility of 20 digits. With saved information active,
Firefox keeps these entries and makes these visible. This is no problem for the
loginid as such, but certainly for the 4 digit keyword. 
An example you can find here :
http://www.argenta.be/frmst.asp?page=47&hoofdnav=6&subnav=5&dienstnav=&subsubnav=0
(and the push the entry "Start Internetbankieren")

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the internet banking page of www.argenta.be (use the url above)
2. Push the entry "Start Internetbankieren"
3. Go to an open entry digit on the last line ("Sleutelwoord")
3. Push the right mouse button followed by the left mouse button

Actual Results:  
Secret key code digit numbers are displayed for all entered codes of the past
for that field.

Expected Results:  
Make it possible to disable this "save form option" by field or at least by form
or webpage

Similar to the Bug 252486, which is limited to https

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

They should have used autocomplete="off" in their field definition :

<INPUT TYPE=password NAME=password SIZE=12 MAXLENGTH=12 value="" AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF">

Comment 2

[Jan Meijnaerts]

I know they can solve the problem that way, but what if they refuse (what they
actually did) because they just react by telling that they do not support
Mozilla Firefox !!!
If we as client would be able to put off autocompletion by web page, the problem
would be solved without depending on the goodwill of the banks.

Comment 3

[Jan Meijnaerts]

By the way the problem is not for the password itself, but for the randomly
chosen 4 numeric digits out of a possibility of 16 numeric digits of the so
called key word ("Sleutelwoord") in the last line of the login entry page. I
already suggested them to treat these digits also as passwords like some other
banks do, but no reaction yet.





 

Comment 4

[Brian]

Setting autocomplete=off at the server side can be over ridden by the user.  
Auto complete will appear to be off but the client app will still cache the 
field values.  This is something that needs to be resolved by the developers of 
the browser, not the developers of the server side systems.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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