CVE-2005-0234

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 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.

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple Safari 1.2.5

1.2.5

References

APPLE-SA-2005-03-21

Vendor Advisory

20050206 state of homograph attacks

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

20050208 International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.

12461

http://www.shmoo.com/idn

Exploit

http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt

Vendor Advisory

multiple-browsers-idn-spoof(19236)

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