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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 395050
Owner: ----
Closed: Nov 2016
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Type: Bug-Security



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Security: http basic-auth modal displays before SSL status updates in the location bar

Reported by demoss.m...@gmail.com, Nov 19 2016

Issue description

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
It's really difficult for a user to tell whether everything is fine with TLS when visiting a page that caused a prompt for basic-auth over https.

VERSION
Chrome Version: 55.0.2883.52 beta (64-bit) (and other verions as well, anecdotally)
Operating System: Win 10, 1151 (and others)

REPRODUCTION CASE
Visit a page using HTTPS that prompts for BASIC AUTH.
Example: https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd

It's very difficult for a user to determine whether the site's certificate is valid judging from the UI.

Is this a security issue? Only if you think anybody looks at that indicator! ;-)
 
https-basic-auth-no-cert-valid-vis.PNG
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Comment 1 by mea...@chromium.org, Nov 21 2016

Components: Internals>Network>Auth
Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
Mergedinto: 395050
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately this is a known issue (bug 395050), and the fix isn't straightforward so the bug is still open.

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