Security Advisory

CVE-2005-4874

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-03-28 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:01:23
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.