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
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370497 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01
Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7833
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.530
Modified: 2018-06-25T19:11:13.127
Link: CVE-2017-7833
JSON object: View
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CWE