CVE-2009-0652 — Insufficient 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
Affected products
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
🔴Vulnerability Details
2💥Exploits & PoCs
1📋Vendor Advisories
2📐Framework References
2CAPEC▶
Homograph Attack via Homoglyphs
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
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