cve-2019-9970
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-24 01:52
Modified
2024-08-04 22:10
Severity ?
Summary
Open Whisper Signal (aka Signal-Desktop) through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if (for example) Latin and Cyrillic characters exist in the same domain name, and the available font has an identical representation of characters from different alphabets.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107550Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/signal-advisory.txtThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107550Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/signal-advisory.txtThird Party Advisory
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