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CVE-2016-6908

MEDIUM
6.1CVSS
Published: 2017-01-26
Updated: 2025-04-20
AI Analysis

Description

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, due to mishandling of several unicode characters such as U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc and how they are rendered combined with (first strong character) such as an IP address or alphabet could lead to a spoofed URL. It was noticed that by placing neutral characters such as "/", "?" in filepath causes the URL to be flipped and displayed from Right To Left. However, in order for the URL to be spoofed the URL must begin with an IP address followed by neutral characters as omnibox considers IP address to be combination of punctuation and numbers and since LTR (Left To Right) direction is not properly enforced, this causes the entire URL to be treated and rendered from RTL (Right To Left). However, it doesn't have be an IP address, what matters is that first strong character (generally, alphabetic character) in the URL must be an RTL character.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
changed
Confidentiality
low
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-601

Metadata

Primary Vendor
OPERA
Published
1/26/2017
Last Modified
4/20/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

opera : opera_browser

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