Closed Bug 311054 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Passwords can be viewed in normal text (Not encrypted)

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259996

People

(Reporter: natarajtunga, Unassigned)

Details

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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259996 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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