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Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, due to mishandling of several unicode characters such as U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc and how they are rendered combined with (first strong character) such as an IP address or alphabet could lead to a spoofed URL. It was noticed that by placing neutral characters such as "/", "?" in filepath causes the URL to be flipped and displayed from Right To Left. However, in order for the URL to be spoofed the URL must begin with an IP address followed by neutral characters as omnibox considers IP address to be combination of punctuation and numbers and since LTR (Left To Right) direction is not properly enforced, this causes the entire URL to be treated and rendered from RTL (Right To Left). However, it doesn't have be an IP address, what matters is that first strong character (generally, alphabetic character) in the URL must be an RTL character.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 26, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-6908

GHSA ID

GHSA-7xf8-x4wh-25c5

Source code

No known source code

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