CVE-2017-7833

medium

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.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370497

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-06-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium