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CVE-2008-4787
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a…
Medium5.8EPSS 13.6%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.6% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- 31960 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20081027 Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081027 Re: Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ie-nbsp-addressbar-spoofing(46234) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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