Mozilla: Bypass of Restricted Keyword "Mozilla" in Display Name Field via Unicode Homoglyphs on addons.allizom.org

A restricted keyword bypass vulnerability was discovered on the Firefox Add-ons platform that allowed an attacker to register a display name visually identical to "Mozilla" by using a Unicode homoglyph character. This circumvented the intended restriction and could have been used to impersonate...

Malicious Python Package Uses Unicode Trickery to Evade Detection and Steal Data

A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index PyPI repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named onyxproxy, was uploaded to PyPI on March 15, 2023, and comes with capabilities to harvest and...

SUSE CVE-2021-42694

An issue was discovered in the character definitions of the Unicode Specification through 14.0. The specification allows an adversary to produce source code identifiers such as function names using homoglyphs that render visually identical to a target identifier. Adversaries can leverage this to...