Medium severity · published Mar 12, 2020
CVE-2019-12278
Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing
4.3
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Opera · Opera
52.1.2517.139570 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12278
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12278
Vendor Advisory
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/
Exploit
https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/opera-android-address-bar-spoofing-cve-2019-12278-9ffcfd6c508c
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