CVE-2017-7838

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
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: 2018-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Punycode format text will be displayed for entire qualified international domain names in some instances when a sub-domain triggers the punycode display instead of the primary domain being displayed in native script and the sub-domain only displaying as punycode. This could be used for limited spoofing attacks due to user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 56.0.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399540
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399540
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/

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