CVE-2008-4787

Published Oct 29, 2008

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a hostname containing many   (Non-Blocking Space character) sequences, which are rendered as whitespace, aka MSRC ticket MSRC7899, a related issue to CVE-2003-1025.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.8
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "693D3C1C-E3E4-49DB-9A13-44ADDFF82507"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References