CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0054

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof a less restrictive security zone and execute arbitrary code via an HTML page containing URLs that contain hostnames that have been double hex encoded, which are decoded twice to generate a malicious hostname, aka the "URL Decoding Zone Spoofing Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 6 • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-174 Double Decoding of the Same Data weakness

References