URL Address Bar Spoofing in F-Secure SAFE Browser for iOS

Vulnerability Description

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.

References

• https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame
• https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/support-and-downloads/security-advisories