UI spoofing via mishandled Punycode Arabic diacritics
Published Jan 10, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025
UI spoofing in WebKit in Apple iOS and iPadOS before 16.2 and macOS before 13.1 allows remote attackers to misrepresent framed web content. WebKit mishandles Punycode Arabic diacritics in a URL host when no Arabic code point precedes them, allowing a framed page to present a deceptive interface. Exploitation requires a user to visit attacker-controlled web content, and the documented consequence is UI spoofing rather than code execution or data access.
Summary
What happened
UI spoofing in WebKit in Apple iOS and iPadOS before 16.2 and macOS before 13.1 allows remote attackers to misrepresent framed web content. WebKit mishandles Punycode Arabic diacritics in a URL host when no Arabic code point precedes them, allowing a framed page to present a deceptive interface. Exploitation requires a user to visit attacker-controlled web content, and the documented consequence is UI spoofing rather than code execution or data access.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-32919
- Published
- Jan 10, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Classifications
- CWE-1021, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <16.2
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