Description
Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combined domain names do not display as punycode. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
Published: 2018-06-11
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16808 Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combined domain names do not display as punycode. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3477-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:19:28.485Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7833

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.530

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:32:45.777

Link: CVE-2017-7833

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