1537825 – (CVE-2018-5117) CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-right (MFSA 2018-03)

Bug 1537825 (CVE-2018-5117) - CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-right (MFSA 2018-03)

Summary: CVE-2018-5117 Mozilla: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-r...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2018-5117
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1534345
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2018-01-23 23:19 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2021-02-17 00:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2018-02-02 00:48:22 UTC

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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0122	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2018-01-24 15:05:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0262	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2018-02-01 16:28:48 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 23:19:25 UTC

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different site than the one loaded.  



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-03/#CVE-2018-5117

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 23:19:29 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Xisigr

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-24 10:07:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0122 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0122

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-01 11:27:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0262 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0262

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