CVE-2006-5544
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a malicious URL containing non-breaking spaces (%A0), which causes the address bar to omit some…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.3%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a malicious URL containing non-breaking spaces (%A0), which causes the address bar to omit some characters from the URL.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 20.26% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/ie
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22542Exploit
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30022
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22542Exploit
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30022
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.