CVE-2021-40835

URL Address Bar Spoofing in WithSecure™ SAFE Browser for iOS

More information

An URL Address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for iOS. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, if user does not carefully pay attention to url, user may be tricked to think content may be coming from a valid domain, while it comes from another. This is performed by using a very long username part of the url so that user cannot see the domain name. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform url address bar spoofing attack. The fix is, browser no longer shows the user name part in address bar.

Contributors

WithSecure Corporation would like to thank following person for bringing this issue to our attention.

Narendra Bhati

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    Description

  • WithSecure SAFE Browser is vulnerable to URL Address Bar Spoofing
  • Status

  • Fixed
  • Risk level

  • Medium
  • Fix

  • WithSecure™ SAFE Browser Version 18.3 and below
  • Affected products

  • WithSecure™ SAFE Browser Version 17.9 and below
  • Platforms

  • iOS
  • Date issued

  • 16/12/2021
  • Security advisories
  • 2021
  • Medium