Bug 1730984 (CVE-2019-11721) - CVE-2019-11721 Mozilla: Domain spoofing through unicode latin 'kra' character
Summary: CVE-2019-11721 Mozilla: Domain spoofing through unicode latin 'kra' character
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2019-11721
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1730979
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-07-18 06:00 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:41 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 68
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Last Closed: 2019-07-18 21:06:51 UTC
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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.



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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
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