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CVE-2008-47871 exploit
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a hostname…
Published 18 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
5.8
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
13.6%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB
Summary
Visual truncation vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers 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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
13.62% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.
Exploits and detections
- EDB-32539 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - ' ' Address Bar URI Spoofing · webapps · 2008-10-27
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
References
- securityfocus.com /bid/31960 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
- securityfocus.com /archive/1/497825/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
- securityfocus.com /archive/1/497827/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/46234 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2008-4787
- NVD: CVE-2008-4787
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