The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser lies in the insufficient checking of URI addresses during their “paste” into the browser’s address bar from the current page. This allows attackers to carry out phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser is related to insufficient verification of the URI address when it is “dropped” into the browser’s address bar from the content of the current page. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to carry out phishing attacks...

The vulnerability of Firefox browser, related to incorrect display of characters in the address bar, allows a hacker to replace the URI address.

The vulnerability of Firefox browsers is related to the incorrect display of Tibetan characters when using certain fonts in OS X’s address bar. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to replace URI addresses...

Apple Mac OS X Security Updates (HT208937)-02

Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

About the security content of Safari 11.1.2

About the security content of Safari 11.1.2 This document describes the security content of Safari 11.1.2. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are...

About the security content of watchOS 4.3.2

About the security content of watchOS 4.3.2 This document describes the security content of watchOS 4.3.2. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are...

About the security content of tvOS 11.4.1

About the security content of tvOS 11.4.1 This document describes the security content of tvOS 11.4.1. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available...

CVE-2018-7635

Whale Browser before 1.0.41.8 displays no URL information but only a title of a web page on the browser's address bar when visiting a blank page, which allows an attacker to display a malicious web page with a fake domain name...

Brave Software: URL spoofing using protocol handlers

Summary: Navigation to protocol handler changes URL in the address bar e.g. ssh://google.com in the address bar is standard behavior. Browsers change URL in the address bar to about:blank if a parent window tries to access the opened page with protocol handler URL. This behavior prevents URL...

RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2018:2112)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2112 advisory. - Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode CVE-2017-7762 - Mozilla: Media recorder segmentation fault when track...

Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode

When entered directly, Reader Mode did not strip the username and password section of URLs displayed in the addressbar. This can be used for spoofing the domain of the current page. This vulnerability affects Firefox 54...

Microsoft Windows 10: Address bar drop-down list suggestions (Edge)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winedgeaddressbardropdown.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Allow Address bar drop-down list suggestions Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.ne...

CVE-2018-5182

If a text string that happens to be a filename in the operating system's native format is dragged and dropped onto the addressbar the specified local file will be opened. This is contrary to policy and is what would happen if the string were the equivalent "file:" URL. This vulnerability affects...

CVE-2018-5143

URLs using "javascript:" have the protocol removed when pasted into the addressbar to protect users from cross-site scripting XSS attacks, but if a tab character is embedded in the "javascript:" URL the protocol is not removed and the script will execute. This could allow users to be socially...

CVE-2018-5111

When the text of a specially formatted URL is dragged to the addressbar from page content, the displayed URL can be spoofed to show a different site than the one loaded. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another site. This vulnerability affects...

CVE-2018-5117

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different sit...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5117

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different sit...

CVE-2017-7839

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting self-XSS attacks where users are...

CVE-2017-7825

Several fonts on OS X display some Tibetan and Arabic characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affect...

CVE-2017-7833

Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combine...

CVE-2017-7839

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting self-XSS attacks where users are...