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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2005-0054

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof a less restrictive security zone and execute arbitrary code via an HTML page containing URLs that contain hostnames that have been double hex encoded, which are decoded twice to…

MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 24.3%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.3%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof a less restrictive security zone and execute arbitrary code via an HTML page containing URLs that contain hostnames that have been double hex encoded, which are decoded twice to generate a malicious hostname, aka the "URL Decoding Zone Spoofing Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0
5.1 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
24.30% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/ie · microsoft/internet explorer
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.