medium6.5
CVE-2019-11721
The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar.
Impact
The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 68.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 15.1 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256009
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256009
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/