{"id":"CVE-2005-0238","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-0238","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:11.396Z","title":"The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets,…","description":"The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.","published":"2005-05-02T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:10:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["gnome/epiphany","mozilla/camino","mozilla/mozilla","omnigroup/omniweb","opera/opera browser"],"epss":{"score":0.01552,"percentile":0.74934,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.55%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.shmoo.com/idn","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399","tags":["Broken Link","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.shmoo.com/idn","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399","tags":["Broken Link","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0238","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}