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Mozilla patched a vulnerability in the Firefox web browser with the launch of the 68.0.2 release which would allow unauthorized users to copy passwords from the browser's built-in Save Logins database even when protected with a master password.
"Stored passwords in 'Saved Logins' can be copied without master password entry" according to Mozilla security advisory, which also rates the security flaw tracked as CVE-2019-11733 as having a 'moderate' impact.
The flaw allows anyone with local access to a computer running an unpatched version of Firefox to go to the Save Logins dialog available in Firefox's Options > Privacy & Security preferences menu and copy the password stored for any of the saved logins by right-clicking and choosing the "Copy Password" option.
"When a master password is set, it is required to be entered before stored passwords can be accessed in the 'Saved Logins' dialog," says Mozilla.
"It was found that locally stored passwords can be copied to the clipboard through the 'copy password' context menu item without first entering the master password, allowing for potential theft of stored passwords."
Mozilla Firefox Bug Let Third-Parties Access Saved Passwords
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:30PM
That. Also, I'm personally using PassFF which means even if the browser's addon gained access and managed to exploit some bug in zx2c4's pass, it would have to contend with some 4096bits of GnuPG. Well, they might be able to find some other bug in the stack that will let them workaround that too... But this is getting state-level targeted and I doubt the triple letter agencies won't just wrench & hammer me for my password instead.
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