CVE-2006-5544
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 21%
exploitation probability
21%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspxhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22542http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188http://www.osvdb.org/30022http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728