Encoding Error Affecting firefox package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FIREFOX-1381489
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Jul 2019

Introduced: 9 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-11721  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-172  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 firefox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

CVSS Scores

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