CVE-2017-7838

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Apr 12, 2017

Description

Punycode format text will be displayed for entire qualified international domain names in some instances when a sub-domain triggers the punycode display instead of the primary domain being displayed in native script and the sub-domain only displaying as punycode. This could be used for limited spoofing attacks due to user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 57Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
101832vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399540
1039803vdb-entry

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