CVE-2005-4874 (GCVE-0-2005-4874)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-03-28 23:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:01
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The XMLHttpRequest object in Mozilla 1.7.8 supports the HTTP TRACE method, which allows remote attackers to obtain (1) proxy authentication passwords via a request with a "Max-Forwards: 0" header or (2) arbitrary local passwords on the web server that hosts this object.
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