vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5383: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jun 11, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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