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CVE-2006-5544
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct…
Medium6.4EPSS 20.8%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.8% · top 2.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- 20728 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20061025 IE7 status: 8 days after release, 3 unfixed issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#347188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1017122 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 22542 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_address_bar_spoofing_test/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ie-popup-addressbar-spoofing(29827) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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