CVE-2013-1699
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) display algorithm in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 does not properly handle the .com, .name, and .net top-level domains, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via unspecified homograph characters.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-61.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840882
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17296
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00005.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-61.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1890-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840882
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17296
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.