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GHSA-MQ8X-FQ5J-38MQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 07:29 – Updated: 2025-04-09 03:32

Details

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.

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CVE-2006-5544 (GCVE-0-2006-5544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-26 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:55

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

9 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20728	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/…	x_refsource_MISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/22542	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_7_popup_addr…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.osvdb.org/30022	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2006-10-25 00:00

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GHSA-MQ8X-FQ5J-38MQ

CVE-2006-5544 (GCVE-0-2006-5544)

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