CVE-2006-5544

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29827

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449917/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/30022

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347188

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017122

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/10/26/ie-address-bar-issue.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-10-26

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.19965