Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.0%
exploitation probability
1.0%top 40% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An attacker could have created a malicious link using bidirectional characters to spoof the location in the address bar when visited. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.4, and Thunderbird < 115.4.1.
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690979https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1836962https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00037.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00042.htmlhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5535https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5538https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-34/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-46/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-47/