CVE-2005-0233
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)20%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xmlPatch
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xmlPatch
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.htmlPatch
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.htmlPatch
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html