Origin spoofing via unencoded Unicode whitespace
Published Nov 26, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2025
URL bar spoofing in Mozilla Firefox before 133, Firefox ESR before 128.5, and Thunderbird before 133 allows remote attackers to hide a page's origin. The address-bar formatter fails to percent-encode whitespace followed by Unicode separator or control characters, allowing Arabic Punycode and blank-rendering code points to push the real origin out of view. Exploitation requires a user to open a crafted URL and trust the misleading address bar; the demonstrated consequence is origin spoofing rather than direct data access or code execution.
Summary
What happened
URL bar spoofing in Mozilla Firefox before 133, Firefox ESR before 128.5, and Thunderbird before 133 allows remote attackers to hide a page's origin. The address-bar formatter fails to percent-encode whitespace followed by Unicode separator or control characters, allowing Arabic Punycode and blank-rendering code points to push the real origin out of view. Exploitation requires a user to open a crafted URL and trust the misleading address bar; the demonstrated consequence is origin spoofing rather than direct data access or code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-11695
- Published
- Nov 26, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Vendor
- Mozilla
- Product
- Firefox
- Classifications
- CWE-1021
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 26, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <133
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