CVE-2019-9970

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 24, 2019
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Mar 23, 2019

Description

Open Whisper Signal (aka Signal-Desktop) through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if (for example) Latin and Cyrillic characters exist in the same domain name, and the available font has an identical representation of characters from different alphabets.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

107550vdb-entry
https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/signal-advisory.txt

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