Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44683

HighPublic PoC

Published: 25 March 2022

Published
25 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.9th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44683 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CWE-1021) vulnerability in Duckduckgo Duckduckgo. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The DuckDuckGo browser 7.64.4 on iOS allows Address Bar Spoofing due to mishandling of the JavaScript window.open function (used to open a secondary browser window). This could be exploited by tricking users into supplying sensitive information such as credentials, because…

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the address bar would display a legitimate URL, but content would be hosted on the attacker's web site.

CWE(s)
CWE-1021

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

duckduckgo
duckduckgo
≤ 7.64.18

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References