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CVE-2006-5544

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phish

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None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 9

securityfocus.com

kb.cert.org

blogs.technet.com

securitytracker.com

secunia.com

osvdb.org

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com