CVE-2006-5544

Published Oct 26, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.4
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:7.0:*:vista:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "3E51CBF2-EFFD-407D-AB34-BDE69EFD60E8"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References