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CVE-2021-33594

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—

An address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for Android. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, it appears like a legitimate one on the address bar, while the content comes from other domain and presented in a window, covering the original content. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform address bar spoofing attack.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

F-secure — Safe

CWEs

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