311054 - Passwords can be viewed in normal text (Not encrypted)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259996

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Nataraj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Passwords are not encrypted if user tries to view the saved passwords.Passowrds 
are visible in clear text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load yahoo mail and login by supplying credentails
2.while clicking on submit button ,choose remember password field.
3.Once user logins ,click on tools on file menu of the browser.
4.then Choose privacy tab,then click view saved passwords button.
5.which will bring up password manager dialog box.
6.On a password manager dialog box ,then click on show password button.
 On clicking show password button,One could see the password saved in readble 
format instead of encrypted format.




Expected Results:  
Password should be encryted..This is one of the big security flaw.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259996 ***