CVE-2008-4787
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a hostname containing many...
- Published
- Oct 29, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Oct 27, 2008
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:PModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 96.4%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Amit Klein · php · Oct 27, 2008
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