CVE-2006-5805 (GCVE-0-2006-5805)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-08 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:04
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Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a security certificate from a secure web site to appear invalid via a link to res://ieframe.dll/invalidcert.htm with the target site as an argument, which displays the site's URL in the address bar but causes Internet Explorer to report that the certificate is invalid.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2006-11-03 00:00
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