Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combined domain names do not display as punycode. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-7833

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-9qx9-m59p-96gr

Published

May 14, 2022 3:16 AM

Last Modified

May 14, 2022 3:16 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 16, 2025 6:29 AM

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