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Firefox URL Spoofing And Phising Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox browser and is prone to URL spoofing and phising vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
Firefox doesn't properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names. This renders the user vulnerable to URL spoofing and phising attacks as the atatcker may redirect the user to a different arbitrary malformed website.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.6 and prior on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.3 or later