CVE-2017-5383

Summary

URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified < 45.7affected
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified < 45.7affected
MozillaFirefoxunspecified < 51affected

Weaknesses

  • Location bar spoofing with unicode characters

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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