Vulnerability in Opera Browser
CVE-2005-0235
The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Opera 7.54 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 · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (77.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt (Broken Link)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.shmoo.com/idn (Exploit, Broken Link)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_31_opera.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list, Mailing List)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)