CVE-2013-1699

Firefox < 21.0 - Address Bar Spoofing via IDN Homograph Characters

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) display algorithm in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 does not properly handle the .com, .name, and .net top-level domains, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via unspecified homograph characters.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17296
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840882

Scores

EPSS 0.0208
EPSS Percentile 79.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-310
Status published
Products (6)
mozilla/firefox 19.0
mozilla/firefox 19.0.1
mozilla/firefox 19.0.2
mozilla/firefox 20.0
mozilla/firefox 20.0.1
mozilla/firefox < 21.0
Published Jun 26, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026