GSD-2006-5544

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
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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
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