Allele Security Intelligence

ASA-2019-00442 – Mozilla Firefox: Domain spoofing through unicode latin ‘kra’ character

Posted on July 17, 2019July 18, 2019 by Allele Security Intelligence in Alerts

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.

ASA-2019-00441 – Mozilla Firefox: Character encoding XSS vulnerability

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 by Allele Security Intelligence in Alerts

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering.