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Comment by _karie_

5 months ago

Any malware or LLM with user-level filesystem access can attack the outdated KDF [1] and/or wait for Firefox to be running with an unlocked credential store and read the decrypted passwords from Firefox's process memory.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973759

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_karie_

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jcattle  5 months ago

Isn't it game over anyway once you have an adversary on your system capable of reading process memory?

  • _karie_  5 months ago

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