CWE-1007Base

Insufficient Visual Distinction of Homoglyphs Presented to User

Incomplete in the CWE catalog · 4 CVEs mapped

4
CVEs mapped
5.3
Median CVSS
What it is

The product displays information or identifiers to a user, but the display mechanism does not make it easy for the user to distinguish between visually similar or identical glyphs (homoglyphs), which may cause the user to misinterpret a glyph and perform an unintended, insecure action.

Recent examples
5.3cvss
CVE-2026-48760

Symfony: HtmlSanitizer URL Parser Deny Gates Underinclusive: Percent-Encoded BiDi Marks and Unicode Whitespace Bypass Visual-Spoofing Defense

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. From 6.1.0 until 6.4.41, 7.4.13, and 8.0.13, UrlSanitizer::parse() rejected raw BiDi formatting characters but not percent-encoded forms and used an ASCII-only whitespace check, allowing sanitized URLs to retain visual-spoofing characters that downstream consumers could decode or display. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.41, 7.4.13, and 8.0.13.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
2.3cvss
CVE-2026-45064

Symfony: HtmlSanitizer URL Attributes Pass Through BiDi Override Characters → Visual href Spoofing

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. From 6.1.0-BETA1 until 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12, UrlSanitizer::parse() passes Unicode explicit-direction BiDi formatting characters through into sanitized href and src attributes, allowing sanitized content to display a link destination that visually differs from the actual destination and enabling phishing-style visual spoofing. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12.

LOWno explanation yet
0%
epss
8.7cvss
CVE-2025-27611

base-x homograph attack allows Unicode lookalike characters to bypass validation.

base-x is a base encoder and decoder of any given alphabet using bitcoin style leading zero compression. Versions 4.0.0, 5.0.0, and all prior to 3.0.11, are vulnerable to attackers potentially deceiving users into sending funds to an unintended address. This issue has been patched in versions 3.0.11, 4.0.1, and 5.0.1.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-1007
Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete
References (2)