Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
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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Affected products
3- Range: <=53
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- medium.com/bugbountywriteup/opera-android-address-bar-spoofing-cve-2019-12278-9ffcfd6c508cnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/nvdVendor Advisory
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