CVE-2019-12278

Summary

CVECVE-2019-12278
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-12 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionOpera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing. Characters from several languages are displayed in Right-to-Left order, due to mishandling of several Unicode characters. The rendering mechanism, in conjunction with the "first strong character" concept, may improperly operate on a numerical IP address or an alphabetic string, leading to a spoofed URL.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opera Opera 52.1.2517.139570 All All All
Application Opera Opera 52.1.2517.139570 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security and privacy - Opera Help MISC help.opera.com Vendor Advisory
Opera Android Address Bar Spoofing: CVE-2019–12278 | by Divyanshu Shukla | InfoSec Write-ups | Medium MISC medium.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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