CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6908

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2017-01-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-601

Description

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, due to mishandling of several unicode characters such as U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc and how they are rendered combined with (first strong character) such as an IP address or alphabet could lead to a spoofed URL. It was noticed that by placing neutral characters such as "/", "?" in filepath causes the URL to be flipped and displayed from Right To Left. However, in order for the URL to be spoofed the URL must begin with an IP address followed by neutral characters as omnibox considers IP address to be combination of punctuation and numbers and since LTR (Left To Right) direction is not properly enforced, this causes the entire URL to be treated and rendered from RTL (Right To Left). However, it doesn't have be an IP address, what matters is that first strong character (generally, alphabetic character) in the URL must be an RTL character.

Affected configurations

• opera opera browser 37.0.2192.105088

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness

References