Vulnerability in Apple Safari

CVE-2005-0234

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Safari — versions 1.2.5
N/a — versions n/a

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)