CVE-2019-11721

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 68

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256009Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256009Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 23, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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