Brave Software · Report #175286
Homograph attack
Validstatus
lowseverity
14upvotes
14 Oct 2016disclosed
How it was found
Summary:
when we add a site to our Homepage, it's not validate a url properly, make sure it's display the punycode.
Products affected:
- Brave 0.12.4 (Tested on mac os)
Steps To Reproduce:
- In browser add homepage with IDN http://ebаy.com/
- now close and open browser again
- you can see it's redirect to http://xn--eby-7cd.com/