Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0233
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-10.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-10 (Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17276 published 2005-03-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17276 title GLSA-200503-10 : Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21930 published 2006-07-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21930 title CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-335.NASL description Updated mozilla packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. A buffer overflow bug was found in the way Mozilla processes GIF images. It is possible for an attacker to create a specially crafted GIF image, which when viewed by a victim will execute arbitrary code as the victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0399 to this issue. A bug was found in the way Mozilla responds to proxy auth requests. It is possible for a malicious webserver to steal credentials from a victims browser by issuing a 407 proxy authentication request. (CVE-2005-0147) A bug was found in the way Mozilla displays dialog windows. It is possible that a malicious web page which is being displayed in a background tab could present the user with a dialog window appearing to come from the active page. (CVE-2004-1380) A bug was found in the way Mozilla Mail handles cookies when loading content over HTTP regardless of the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17626 published 2005-03-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17626 title RHEL 4 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:335) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-30.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-30 (Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2 (CAN-2005-0399) Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image or scrollbar drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0401, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17619 published 2005-03-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17619 title GLSA-200503-30 : Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SA_2005_022.NASL description The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:022 (kdelibs3). Several vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed in the KDE desktop environment. - A buffer overflow via specially crafted PCX pictures was fixed. This could lead to a remote attacker being able to execute code as the user opening or viewing a PCX images. This PCX image could have been embedded within a web page or Email. This affects SUSE Linux 9.1 up to 9.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Novell Linux Desktop 9. - The IDN domain name cloaking problem was fixed. A remote website could disguise its name as another potentially trusted site by using a extension originally meant for non-ASCII domain names by using last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18014 published 2005-04-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18014 title SUSE-SA:2005:022: kdelibs3 NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2005-249.NASL description A buffer overflow bug was found in the way Mozilla processes GIF images. It is possible for an attacker to create a specially crafted GIF image, which when viewed by a victim will execute arbitrary code as the victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0399 to this issue. A bug was found in the way Mozilla responds to proxy auth requests. It is possible for a malicious webserver to steal credentials from a victims browser by issuing a 407 proxy authentication request. (CVE-2005-0147) A bug was found in the way Mozilla displays dialog windows. It is possible that a malicious web page which is being displayed in a background tab could present the user with a dialog window appearing to come from the active page. (CVE-2004-1380) A bug was found in the way Mozilla Mail handles cookies when loading content over HTTP regardless of the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 19634 published 2005-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19634 title Fedora Core 3 : mozilla-1.7.6-1.3.2 (2005-249) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-149-3.NASL description USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be upgraded as well. Please see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1 for the original advisory. This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges if the user visited a malicious website. (MFSA-2005-01 to MFSA-2005-44; please see the following website for details: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20546 published 2006-01-15 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2018 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20546 title Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-149-3) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18162 published 2005-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18162 title RHEL 2.1 / 3 : Mozilla (RHSA-2005:384) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SA_2005_016.NASL description The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:016 (Mozilla Firefox). This security update for Mozilla Firefox fixes following problems: - CAN-2005-0231: last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20082 published 2005-10-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20082 title SUSE-SA:2005:016: Mozilla Firefox NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2005-248.NASL description A buffer overflow bug was found in the way Mozilla processes GIF images. It is possible for an attacker to create a specially crafted GIF image, which when viewed by a victim will execute arbitrary code as the victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0399 to this issue. A bug was found in the way Mozilla responds to proxy auth requests. It is possible for a malicious webserver to steal credentials from a victims browser by issuing a 407 proxy authentication request. (CVE-2005-0147) A bug was found in the way Mozilla displays dialog windows. It is possible that a malicious web page which is being displayed in a background tab could present the user with a dialog window appearing to come from the active page. (CVE-2004-1380) A bug was found in the way Mozilla Mail handles cookies when loading content over HTTP regardless of the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18320 published 2005-05-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18320 title Fedora Core 2 : mozilla-1.7.6-1.2.2 (2005-248) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-176.NASL description Updated firefox packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. A bug was found in the Firefox string handling functions. If a malicious website is able to exhaust a system last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17252 published 2005-03-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17252 title RHEL 4 : firefox (RHSA-2005:176) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_101.NASL description The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 1.0.1. Such versions have multiple security issues, including vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to impersonate a website by using an International Domain Name, or vulnerabilities that could allow arbitrary code execution. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17218 published 2005-02-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17218 title Firefox < 1.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2005-058.NASL description A vulnerability in dcopserver was discovered by Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE security team. A local user can lock up the dcopserver of other users on the same machine by stalling the DCOP authentication process, causing a local Denial of Service. dcopserver is the KDE Desktop Communication Procotol daemon (CVE-2005-0396). As well, the IDN (International Domain Names) support in Konqueror is vulnerable to a phishing technique known as a Homograph attack. This attack is made possible due to IDN allowing a website to use a wide range of international characters that have a strong resemblance to other characters. This can be used to trick users into thinking they are on a different trusted site when they are in fact on a site mocked up to look legitimate using these other characters, known as homographs. This can be used to trick users into providing personal information to a site they think is trusted (CVE-2005-0237). Finally, it was found that the dcopidlng script was vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files of a user when the script is run on behalf of that user. However, this script is only used as part of the build process of KDE itself and may also be used by the build processes of third- party KDE applications (CVE-2005-0365). The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues and Mandrakesoft encourages all users to upgrade immediately. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17346 published 2005-03-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17346 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2005:058)
Oval
accepted 2007-05-09T16:10:38.131-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Christine Walzer organization The MITRE Corporation name Matthew Wojcik organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation
description The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100029 status accepted submitted 2005-08-16T04:00:00.000-04:00 title Mozilla IDN Homograph Spoofing Vulnerability version 6 accepted 2013-04-29T04:12:31.569-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Aharon Chernin organization SCAP.com, LLC name Dragos Prisaca organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782 comment CentOS Linux 3.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831 comment CentOS Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636 comment Oracle Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. family unix id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11229 status accepted submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 title The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. version 26
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References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-29.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110782704923280&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11229
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100029