CVE-2022-42931 (GCVE-0-2022-42931)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 15:23
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Username saved to a plaintext file on disk
Summary
Logins saved by Firefox should be managed by the Password Manager component which uses encryption to save files on-disk. Instead, the username (not password) was saved by the Form Manager to an unencrypted file on disk. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 106.
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