Bug 1730984 (CVE-2019-11721)

Summary:	CVE-2019-11721 Mozilla: Domain spoofing through unicode latin 'kra' character
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Bug Blocks:	1730979

Description Doran Moppert 2019-07-18 06:00:56 UTC

The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11721

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2019-07-18 06:00:58 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Anonymous

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-18 21:06:51 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-11721