CVE-2017-5383
N/A
Published: June 11, 2018 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:20 AM UTC
10 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFirefoxEnterprise Linux
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%v < 45.7.0v < 51v < 51.0
Affected range stops below 51, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 51.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 45.7v < 45.7.0
Affected range stops below 45.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 45.7.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
95%
Enterprise Linux Server· Red Hatrubygems
95%95%
v < 45.7
Affected range stops below 45.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 45.7.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95769VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323338x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324716Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-13Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-22Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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