5.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-4787

Published: 29/10/2008 Updated: 11/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 585
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote malicious users 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.

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microsoft internet explorer 6

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/31960/info Internet Explorer is affected by a URI-spoofing vulnerability because it fails to adequately handle specific combinations of the non-breaking space character (' ') An attacker may leverage this issue to spoof the source URI of a site presented to an unsuspecting user This may lead to ...