Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2019-12278
CVE-2019-12278
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.
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References
2- help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- medium.com/bugbountywriteup/opera-android-address-bar-spoofing-cve-2019-12278-9ffcfd6c508cmitrex_refsource_MISC
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