CVE-2008-4788

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 29, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Oct 29, 2008

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 omits high-bit URL-encoded characters when displaying the address bar, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a domain name that differs from an important domain name only in these characters, as demonstrated by using exam%A9ple.com to spoof example.com, aka MSRC ticket MSRC7900.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20081027 Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6mailing-list
20081027 Re: Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6mailing-list
ie-highbit-addressbar-spoofing(46235)vdb-entry

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