VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-7833
This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combined domain names do not display as punycode.
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 1.47%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.47% probability · 72th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370497Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370497Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.