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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2016
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Security



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Security: Password can be made readable by changing text box type to "text"

Reported by dropboxs...@gmail.com, May 3 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
On google chrome any saved password can be viewed by just changing the textbox type to "text". This same functionality is blocked in google password manager.

VERSION
Version 50.0.2661.94 (64-bit)
Operating System: OS X Version 10.9.5

REPRODUCTION CASE
Here is a dropbox url for the screen recording to show the bug.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9lai1lc36c1swq/ChromeBug.mov?dl=0

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Password is visible

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.9.5
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

Comment 1 by rsesek@chromium.org, May 4 2016

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
What you are describing is not a security issue and is covered by our security FAQ: http://dev.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#TOC-What-about-unmasking-of-passwords-with-the-developer-tools-
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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Oct 1 2016 

This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Oct 2 2016 

This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 4 by mbarbe...@chromium.org, Oct 2 2016

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