CVE-2016-6908

Severity Score

6.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Caracteres de lenguas como el árabe o el hebreo se muestran en orden RTL (de derecha a izquierda) en Opera 37.0.2192.105088 para Android, debido al manejo incorrecto de muchos caracteres unicode como U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc y cómo se representan combinadas (primer carácter fuerte) como una dirección IP o alfabeto podría conducir a una URL falsificada. Se ha advertido que poniendo caracteres neutrales como "/", "?" en la ruta de archivo provoca que la URL sea volteada y mostrada de derecha a izquierda. Sin embargo, para que la URL sea suplantada, debe comenzar con una dirección de IP seguida por caracteres neutrales ya que omnibox considera que la dirección IP es una combinación de puntuación y números y dado que la dirección LTR (izquierda a derecha) no es forzada adecuadamente, esto provoca que toda la URL sea tratada y representado desde RTL (derecha a izquierda). Sin embargo, no tiene que ser una dirección IP, lo que importa es que el primer carácter fuerte (generalmente, carácter alfabético) en la URL debe ser un carácter RTL.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-08-22 CVE Reserved
2017-01-26 CVE Published
2023-11-17 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92701	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Opera Search vendor "Opera"		Opera Browser Search vendor "Opera" for product "Opera Browser"				37.0.2192.105088 Search vendor "Opera" for product "Opera Browser" and version "37.0.2192.105088"		android		Affected