CVE-2017-7825
Mozilla: OS X fonts render some Tibetan and Arabic unicode characters as spaces (MFSA 2017-22)
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · September 28, 2017
Updated · November 26, 2025
Description
Several fonts on OS X display some Tibetan and Arabic characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE not specified