Vulnerability in GNOME Epiphany
CVE-2005-0238
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany 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: 0.016 (72.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnome Epiphany
- Mozilla Camino — versions 0.8.5
- Mozilla
- Omnigroup Omniweb — versions 5
- Opera Opera_browser
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)
- secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID)