HackerOne · Report #29491
homograph attack. IDNs displayed in unicode in bug reports and on external link warning page
Validstatus
$500bounty
12upvotes
9 Oct 2014disclosed
How it was found
the IDN: http://ebаy.com/
is a homograph for the latin ebay.com. if you click that first link, youm might think that you are going to ebay.com. in fact, you are going to a homograph url http://xn--eby-7cd.com/
more info http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-google-chrome
it would be safer to show the punycode version of the url so that it would be apparent that something weird is going on. that is, show http://xn--eby-7cd.com/ instead of http://ebаy.com/