CVE-2008-4787

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-10-29 15:31:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:52:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

6

References

20081027 Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6

20081027 Re: Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6

31960

Exploit

ie-nbsp-addressbar-spoofing(46234)

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