Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
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 characters from the URL.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.208 (97.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.203 · newest: 0.208 · change: +0.005
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 7.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/22542 (Exploit, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/30022 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827 (vdb-entry)