CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5383

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2018-06-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • mozilla thunderbird (< 45.7.0) • mozilla firefox (< 51.0) • mozilla firefox (< 45.7.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References