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CVE-2019-12278 (GCVE-0-2019-12278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-12 21:48 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:17
VLAI
Summary
Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing. Characters from several languages are displayed in Right-to-Left order, due to mishandling of several Unicode characters. The rendering mechanism, in conjunction with the "first strong character" concept, may improperly operate on a numerical IP address or an alphabetic string, leading to a spoofed URL.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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