Improper Handling of Bidirectional IRIs in Google Chrome

CVE-2014-1723 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The UnescapeURLWithOffsetsImpl function in net/base/escape.cc in Google Chrome before 34.0.1847.116 does not properly handle bidirectional Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof URLs via crafted use of right-to-left (RTL) Unicode text.

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