Mozilla Firefox up to 68.0.1 Password Storage information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Mozilla Firefox up to 68.0.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Password Storage. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-11733. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 68.0.1 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Password Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

When a master password is set, it is required to be entered again before stored passwords can be accessed in the 'Saved Logins' dialog. It was found that locally stored passwords can be copied to the clipboard thorough the 'copy password' context menu item without re-entering the master password if the master password had been previously entered in the same session, allowing for potential theft of stored passwords. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.0.2 and Firefox ESR < 68.0.2.

The weakness was released 09/27/2019 as MFSA 2019-24 as confirmed security advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-11733 since 05/03/2019. Attacking locally is a requirement. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 68.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-142395, VDB-142394, VDB-142393 and VDB-142392. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 68.0.0
• 68.0.1

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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