CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-0238
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnome epiphany
• mozilla camino 0.8.5
• mozilla mozilla (<= 1.6)
• omnigroup omniweb 5
• opera opera browser (<= 7.54)
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Broken Link, Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147399 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry