Bug 1361985 (CVE-2016-5260)

Summary: CVE-2016-5260 Mozilla: Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file (MFSA 2016-74)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 06:32:28 UTC 
Mozilla employee Mike Kaply reported that the Firefox session restore data can contain passwords in plain text if a password input field on a page has its type changed from "password" to "text" during a session. This can occur if the password input field has a scripted mechanism to display the password to the user. Once this type is changed, the password data will persist as clear text within stored form data for this page. This could result in a potential revelation of site passwords on sites that use this mechanism to display password data if an attacker could find a way to read the session restoration file. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mike Kaply

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.