Characters from the "Canadian Syllabics" unicode block can be mixed with characters from other unicode blocks in the addressbar instead of being rendered as their raw "punycode" form, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks through character confusion. The current Unicode standard allows characters from "Aspirational Use Scripts" such as Canadian Syllabics to be mixed with Latin characters in the "moderately restrictive" IDN profile. We have changed Firefox behavior to match the upcoming Unicode version 10.0 which removes this category and treats them as "Limited Use Scripts.". This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:28.412Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7764

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:08.437

Modified: 2018-08-13T19:37:53.447

Link: CVE-2017-7764

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-06-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7764 - Bugzilla