CVE-2009-0652Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
5.8MEDIUMNVD
CNA7.5
EPSS
2.1%
top 15.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 20
Latest updateMay 2

Description

The Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) blacklist in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 and other versions before 3.0.9; Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21; and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 does not include box-drawing characters, which allows remote attackers to spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks, as demonstrated by homoglyphs of the / (slash) and ? (question mark) characters in a subdomain of a .cn domain name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0233. NOTE: some third parties claim that 3.0.6 is not affecte

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 4.9

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDmozilla/firefox3.0.6+49
NVDmozilla/seamonkey1.1.14+23
NVDmozilla/thunderbird2.0.0.20+11

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h8qx-x78q-837g: The Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) blacklist in Mozilla Firefox 32022-05-02
CVEList
CVE-2009-0652: The Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) blacklist in Mozilla Firefox 32009-02-20

💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
Look n stop - Local Denial of Service2011-01-21

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities2009-04-23
Red Hat
firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks)2009-02-16

📐Framework References

2
CWE
Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User
CAPEC
Homograph Attack via Homoglyphs

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks)2009-02-21
CVE-2009-0652 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase