281895 - Password Manager displays password field in dialog box prompt

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Eric Gregory]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The Password Manager displays whatever I type into the "SFSU ID" box (aka the "
PID" box) and asks if I want to save the password for that account.  Since it's
a password input, this is a (minor) security flaw.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill in the SFSU ID field with a social security number
2. Fill in the PAC number field
3. Click "Log in" or hit enter
Actual Results:  
The "secret" ID number is displayed in the Password Manager dialog box for the
people looking over my shoulder to read.

Expected Results:  
Not printed the number in the Password Manager dialog.

Most sites where the user ID is a password input don't seem to invoke the
Password Manager at all.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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