An URL Address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for iOS. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, if user does not carefully pay attention to url, user may be tricked to think content may be coming from a valid domain, while it comes from another. This is performed by using a very long username part of the url so that user cannot see the domain name. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform url address bar spoofing attack. The fix is, browser no longer shows the user name part in address bar.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-27992 An URL Address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for iOS. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, if user does not carefully pay attention to url, user may be tricked to think content may be coming from a valid domain, while it comes from another. This is performed by using a very long username part of the url so that user cannot see the domain name. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform url address bar spoofing attack. The fix is, browser no longer shows the user name part in address bar.
Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to version 18.5 or newer from the App Store


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: F-SecureUS

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T02:51:07.421Z

Reserved: 2021-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-40835

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-16T11:15:07.977

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:24:53.257

Link: CVE-2021-40835

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