CVE-2014-1723

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The UnescapeURLWithOffsetsImpl function in net/base/escape.cc in Google Chrome before 34.0.1847.116 does not properly handle bidirectional Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof URLs via crafted use of right-to-left (RTL) Unicode text.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 34.0.1847.115

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/04/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00012.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2905
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337746
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=254091&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/04/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00012.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2905
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337746
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=254091&view=revision

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