# CVE-2019-12278: Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-03-12 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Opera through 53 on Android allows Address Bar Spoofing. Characters from several languages are displayed in Right-to-Left order, due to mishandling of several Unicode characters. The rendering mechanism, in conjunction with the "first strong character" concept, may improperly operate on a numerical IP address or an alphabetic string, leading to a spoofed URL.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/
- https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/opera-android-address-bar-spoofing-cve-2019-12278-9ffcfd6c508c

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