A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component SSL Certificate. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was released 05/02/2005 by Eric Johanson as Bug 147399 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-0238 since 02/07/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19236), SecurityFocus (BID 12461†), Secunia (SA17618†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-7343†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-1179, VDB-1175, VDB-1180 and VDB-1177. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Web Browser

Name

• Mozilla

Version

• 0.8.5
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.2.1
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.4.1
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.9
• 0.9.35
• 0.9.48
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.1
• 1.6

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• open-source

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