CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5544
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-10-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft ie 7.0
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22542 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30022 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22542 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30022 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com