Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2007-3164
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, when prompting for HTTP Basic Authentication for an IDN web site, uses ACE labels for the domain name in the status bar, but uses internationalized labels for this name in the authentication dialog, which might allow remote attackers to perform phishing attacks if the user misinterprets confusable characters in the internationalized labels, as demonstrated by displaying xn--theshmogroup-bgk.com only in the status bar.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.099 (95.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.099 · newest: 0.099 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 7.0
References
- secunia.com/advisories/25663 (third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/36142 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34867 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24483 (vdb-entry)
- ha.ckers.org/blog/20070608/cross-domain-basic-auth-phishing-tactics/
- www.bitsploit.de/archives/428-Cross-Domain-Basic-Auth-Phishing-Tactics.html