Vulnerability in GNOME Epiphany
CVE-2005-0238
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 · 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: 0.016 (74.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Epiphany
- Mozilla Camino — versions 0.8.5
- Mozilla
- Omnigroup Omniweb — versions 5
- Opera Browser
References
- www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt (Exploit, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.shmoo.com/idn (Exploit, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)