CVE-2008-4787

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46234

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497827/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497825/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-10-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

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

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: 0.1362